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Alex D. Krieger1 1911-1991

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Dee Ann Story
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American Antiquity , Volume 58 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 614 - 621
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1993

Footnotes

1

Margery Krieger provided indispensable biographical data; E. Mott Davis and Lee Johnson, Jr., offered constructive suggestions; and Janice Guy, Thomas R. Hester, Jefferson Chapman, Robert Dunnell, and Donald Grayson helped fill in information gaps.

The lead photograph was taken in the mid-1980s while Alex was visiting Hal and Dee Ann Story.

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