Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea

Antiquity

Volumn 69, Issue 265, 1995, Pages 818-830

  Hope, Geoff ^a   Golson, Jack ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN OCCUPATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENT;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0029537852     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 17451744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00082363     Document Type: Article

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