Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific

Nature

Volumn 467, Issue 7317, 2010, Pages 801-804

  Currie, Thomas E ^a,b   Greenhill, Simon J ^c   Gray, Russell D ^c   Hasegawa, Toshikazu ^a   MacE, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; ISLAND; PHYLOGENETICS; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; POLITICAL HISTORY;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; GEOGRAPHY; GROUP PROCESSES; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; POLITICS; TAIWAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 77957957616     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09461     Document Type: Article

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