Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 100-119

  O'Brien, Michael J ^a   Boulanger, Matthew T ^a   Buchanan, Briggs ^b   Collard, Mark ^c,d   Lee Lyman, R ^a   Darwent, John ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cladistics; Classification; Clovis; Cultural transmission; Fluted points

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898650547     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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