Dating Lapita pottery in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-194

  Specht, Jim ^a   Gosden, Chris ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Charcoal; Dating; Lapita; Shell

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002157260     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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