The ones that still won’t go away: More biased thoughts on the pre-clovis peopling of the new world

Paleoamerican Odyssey

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 511-520

  Adovasio, J M ^a   Pedler, David R ^a  

^a MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beringia; Clovis; Clovis contemporaries; Clovis first; Ice free corridor; Last glacial maximum; Peopling of the new world; Pre clovis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907184031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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