Evaluating indices of curation for archaic north american bifacial projectile points

Journal of Field Archaeology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 347-361

  Horowitz, Rachel A ^a   Mccall, Grant S ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifacial projectile points; Curation; Organization of technology; Reduction indices; Southeast archaic period

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887954842     PISSN: 00934690     EISSN: 20424582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0093469013Z.00000000063     Document Type: Article

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