Paleoeskimo occupation history of Foxe Basin, Arctic Canada: Implications for the core area model and dorset origins

American Antiquity

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 249-276

  Savelle, James M ^a   Dyke, Arthur S ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

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EID: 84907278244     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.79.2.249     Document Type: Review

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