Are great basin stemmed points as old as clovis in the intermountain west?: A review of the geochronological evidence

Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest: Papers in Honor of Don D. Fowler

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 35-60

  Goebel, Ted ^a   Keene, Joshua L ^a  

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