The Haverty Human Skeletons: Morphological, Depositional, and Geochronological Characteristics
eScholarship (California Digital Library)Published 1 July 1990Open access
Sheilagh T. Brooks, Richard H. Brooks, Gail Kennedy, J. Austin, James R. Firby, Louis A. Payen
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The purpose of this report is to provide the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the Haverty skeletal series. This discussion includes a summary of the events associated with the original discovery, a reconstruction of the geologic and stratigraphic context of the locality, a description of the apparently associated archaeological materials, a full morphological description of the remains, and a summary of the current status of the dating evidence.
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