Cultural stasis and change in northern North America: A macroevolutionary perspective

Macroevolution in Human Prehistory: Evolutionary Theory and Processual Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 235-251

  Prentiss, Anna Marie ^a   Lenert, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3_9     Document Type: Chapter

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