Innovation and natural selection in paleoindian projectile points from the American Southwest

Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 61-80

  Van Pool, Todd L ^a   O’brien, Michael J ^a   Lyman, R Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139207775.007     Document Type: Chapter

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