Cultural Responses to a Late Holocene Climatic Oscillation in the Mariana Islands, Micronesia: Lessons from the Past

Human Ecology Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-159

  Hunter Anderson, Rosalind L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cultural adaptations; Mariana Islands; Prehistoric archaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054954225     PISSN: 10744827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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