Surviving an ice age: The zooarchaeological record from southwestern Tasmania

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 583-585

  Garvey, Jillian ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; PLEISTOCENE; ZOOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 36348931088     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2007.S06     Document Type: Article

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