Reassessing Australia's linguistic prehistory

Current Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-61

  Clendon, Mark ^a  

^a Batchelor Institute   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1086/497671     Document Type: Article

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