Symbolic behaviour and the peopling of the southern arc route to Australia

Quaternary International

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 59-68

  Balme, Jane ^a   Davidson, Iain ^b   McDonald, Jo ^c   Stern, Nicola ^d   Veth, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LANGUAGE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL HISTORY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67349250419     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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