Kelp forests, coastal migrations, and the younger dryas: Late pleistocene and earliest holocene human settlement, subsistence, and ecology on california’s channel islands

Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response During the Younger Dryas

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 79-110

  Rick, Torben C ^a   Erlandson, Jon M ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315427133-9     Document Type: Chapter

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