The El Gigante rockshelter: Preliminary observations on an early to late Holocene occupation in southern Honduras

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 597-610

  Scheffler, Timothy E ^a   Hirth, Kenneth G ^b   Hasemann, George ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Instituto Hondureno de Antropología e Historia   (Honduras)

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EID: 84892563446     PISSN: 10456635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/1045-6635.23.4.597     Document Type: Article

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