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- ↑ "Southern Anthropological Society - Annual Conference | Conferences | Marshall University". mds.marshall.edu.
- ↑ "SAS Meetings".
- ↑ "Southern Anthropological Society Third Annual Meeting". American Antiquity. 32 (4): 470–470. October 13, 1967. doi:10.1017/S0002731600095925 – via Cambridge University Press.
- ↑ "Professor Ethridge Wins Southern Anthropological Society Award". Environmental Studies. April 5, 2012.
