Pre-Austronesian dispersal of banana cultivars west from New guinea: linguistic relics from eastern Indonesia

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-28

  Denham, Tim ^a   Donohue, Mark ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 67650081136     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00041.x     Document Type: Article

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