Defining the normative range of Clovis fluted point shape using geographic models of geometric morphometric variation

Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 161-180

  Smith, Heather L ^a   Smallwood, Ashley M ^b   Dewitt, Thomas J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

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