Middle and late Holocene skin-working tools in Melanesia: Tattooing and scarification?

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-28

  Kononenko, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flakes; Melanesia; Obsidian; Quartz; Stemmed tools; Use wear residue analysis; Vanuatu; West New Britain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858816166     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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