Columbian mammoth petroglyphs from the San Juan River near Bluff, Utah, United States

Rock Art Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-152

  Malotki, Ekkehart ^a   Wallace, Henry D ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Desert Archaeology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Clovis; Mammoth; Megafauna; Petroglyph; Pleistocene; Utah

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255202754     PISSN: 08130426     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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