Phytolith and starch analysis of Dent site mammoth teeth calculus new evidence for late pleistocene mammoth diets and environments

Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 185-192

  Cummings, Linda Scott ^a   Albert, Rosa María ^b  

^a Paleo Research Institute Colorado   (United States)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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