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Resource depression on the Northwest Coast of North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Virginia L. Butler
Virginia L. Butler*
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Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland OR 97207, USA. virginia@ch2.ch.pdx.edu
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North Americazooarchaeologyprehistoric subsistenceprey choice modelresource depression
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 285 , September 2000 , pp. 649 - 661
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