Human-Mediated Prehistoric Marine Extinction in the Tropical Pacific? Understanding the Presence of Hippopus hippopus (Linn. 1758) in Ancient Shell Middens on the Rove Peninsula, Southwest Viti Levu Island, Fiji

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2-17

  Seeto, Johnson ^a   Nunn, Patrick D ^b   Sanjana, Shalni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 84859736692     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21385     Document Type: Article

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