Shell beads and social behaviour in Pleistocene Australia

Antiquity

Volumn 80, Issue 310, 2006, Pages 799-811

  Balme, Jane ^b   Morse, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Australia; Beads; Marine shells; Ornament; Palaeolithic; Pleistocene; Symbolism

Indexed keywords

PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SHELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBOLISM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33845747319     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094436     Document Type: Article

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