Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history

World Archaeology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 538-552

  Spriggs, Matthew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaeological theory; Ethnographic analogy; Pacific

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DECLINE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 55949127969     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240802453161     Document Type: Article

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