Dating the dreaming? Creation of myths and rituals for mounds along the northern Australian coastline

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-222

  Hiscock, Peter ^a   Faulkner, Patrick ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 34347288624     PISSN: 09597743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959774306000126     Document Type: Article

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