The commensal model for human settlement of the pacific 10 years on - What can we say and where to now?

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-163

  Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Lapita colonization; mtDNA; Rattus exulans

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COLONIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RESEARCH WORK; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS EXULANS;

EID: 70349682423     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564890903155273     Document Type: Review

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