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Cultural Hiatus in the Eastern Great Basin?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

C. Melvin Aikens
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Abstract

The case recently made by Madsen and Berry (1975) for human abandonment of the entire eastern Great Basin between approximately 3200 and 1500 B.P. is critically reviewed. The stratigraphic and radiocarbon data on which their argument is based are shown to be inadequate to support it.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 543 - 550
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1976

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