Lithic technology, cultural transmission, and the nature of the far western paleoarchaic/paleoindian co-tradition

Meetings at the Margins: Prehistoric Cultural Interactions in the Intermountain West

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 47-64

  Davis, Loren G ^a   Willis, Samuel C ^a   Macfarlan, Shane J ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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