Pleistocene Settlement of Deserts from an Australian Perspective

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 34-57

  Hiscock, Peter ^a   Wallis, Lynley A ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaeological sites; Australia; Climatic shifts; Pleistocene settlement; Rocky outcrops

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845771324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774632.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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