Coastal Foragers on Southern Shores: Marine Resource Use in Northeast Australia since the Late Pleistocene

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 441-461

  Ulm, Sean ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal Resource; Late Pleistocene; Marine Resource; Marine Transgression; Torres Strait Islander People

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862601413     PISSN: 15682722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8219-3_19     Document Type: Chapter

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