Floating obsidian and its implications for the interpretation of Pacific prehistory

Antiquity

Volumn 71, Issue 271, 1997, Pages 188-193

  Spennemann, Dirk H R ^a   Ambrose, Wal R ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; OBSIDIAN; OCEAN DRIFT; PREHISTORY;

PACIFIC;

EID: 0031398351     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00084684     Document Type: Article

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