Usewear and residue analysis of stone artefacts from the enclosed chamber, Rocky Cape, Tasmania

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 79-93

  Fullagar, Richard ^a   Jones, Rhys ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Residues; Rocky Cape; Stone artefacts; Tasmania; Usewear

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748496982     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2004.tb00565.x     Document Type: Article

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