Reassessing the chronology of the archaeological site of Anzick

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 27, 2018, Pages 7000-7003

  Becerra Valdivia, Lorena ^a   Waters, Michael R ^b   Stafford, Thomas W ^c   Anzick, Sarah L ^d   Comeskey, Daniel ^a   Devièse, Thibaut ^a   Higham, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stafford Research   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon dating; Anzick; Clovis; First Americans; hydroxyproline

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANTLER; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE TISSUE; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKULL; AMERICAN INDIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HISTORY; MONTANA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MONTANA;

EID: 85049363654     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803624115     Document Type: Article

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