Working with Wilmsen: Paleoindian end scraper design and use at nobles pond

American Antiquity

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-432

  Seeman, Mark F ^a   Loebel, Thomas J ^b   Comstock, Aaron ^c   Summers, Garry L ^d  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

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EID: 84898722819     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.78.3.407     Document Type: Article

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