Topper site, South Carolina: An overview of the Clovis lithic assemblage from the topper hillside

In the Eastern Fluted Point Tradition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 280-298

  Smallwood, Ashley M ^a   Miller, D Shane ^b   Sain, Douglas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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