Comments on Sullivan and Rozen's “Debitage Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation”

Daniel S. Amick; Raymond P. Mauldin

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Comments on Sullivan and Rozen's “Debitage Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation”

Daniel S. Amick, Raymond P. Mauldin

Department of Anthropology

University of Texas at San Antonio

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Original language	American English
Journal	American Antiquity
Volume	54
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/281339
State	Published - Jan 1 1989

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History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

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