Living lithics: Ethnoarchaeology in highland Papua New Guinea

Antiquity

Volumn 77, Issue 297, 2003, Pages 555-566

  Sillitoe, Paul ^a   Hardy, Karen ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discard; Gender; Lithics; Material culture; Papua New Guinea

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; GENDER ROLE; MATERIAL CULTURE; TOOL USE;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0345581381     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00092619     Document Type: Article

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