History as a family tree, history as an entangled bank: Constructing images and interpretations of prehistory in the South Pacific

Antiquity

Volumn 62, Issue 237, 1988, Pages 642-657

  Terrell, John ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; PREHISTORY;

PACIFIC(SOUTH);

EID: 0024159895     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 17451744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00075049     Document Type: Article

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