Seasonality of Late Prehistoric Clamming on San Francisco Bay: Oxygen Isotope Analyses of Macoma nasuta Shells from a Stege Mound, CA-CCO-297

California Archaeology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-46

  Eerkens, Jelmer W ^a   DeGeorgey, Alex ^b   Spero, Howard J ^a   Descantes, Christophe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Alta Archaeological Consulting LLC   (United States)

^c PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 84935913891     PISSN: 1947461X     EISSN: 19474628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1947461X14Z.00000000024     Document Type: Article

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