Box Gully: New evidence for aboriginal occupation of Australia south of the murray River prior to the last glacial maximum

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-11

  Richards, Thomas ^a   Pavlides, Christina ^b   Walshe, Keryn ^c   Webber, Harry ^a   Johnston, Rochelle ^a  

^a School of Applied Sciences   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Box Gully; Late Pleistocene; Pre Last Glacial Maximum; South Eastern Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 48349140927     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2007.tb00001.x     Document Type: Article

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