New ideas about Late Holocene climate variability in the central Pacific

Current Anthropology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 521-535

  Allen, Melinda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 33746513093     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504168     Document Type: Article

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