Connecting the dots: Least cost analysis, paleogeography, and the search for paleoindian sites in southern highland peru

Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 32-45

  Rademaker, Kurt ^a   Reid, David A ^a   Bromley, Gordon R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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