Changing shorelines and cultural orientations in the sepik-ramu, papua new guinea: Implications for pacific prehistory

World Archaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-14

  Swadling, Pamela ^a  

^a Papua New Guinea National Museum   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Austronesian; Lapita; Midden; New guinea; Pottery; Sepik ramu

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005935889     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1997.9980360     Document Type: Article

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