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The Climatic Significance of the Hosterman’s Pit Local Fauna, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John E. Guilday
John E. Guilday*
Affiliation:
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Abstract

The change from a boreal to a temperate mammal fauna in central Pennsylvania is believed bracketed by radiocarbon dates associated with two cave faunas at from ca. 9300 to 7290 B.C.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 231 - 232
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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