Technological responses to risk in Holocene Australia

Journal of World Prehistory

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 267-292

  Hiscock, Peter ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; colonization; risk; technology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HISTORICAL STUDIES; HOLOCENE; MODELLING APPROACH; TECHNOLOGICAL RESPONSE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0028562923     PISSN: 08927537     EISSN: 15737802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02221051     Document Type: Article

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