Cycles of Aridity and Human Mobility: Risk Minimization Among Late Pleistocene Foragers of the Western Desert, Australia

Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 100-115

  Veth, Peter ^a  

^a Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid land foragers; Aridity; Australian deserts; Springs; Western desert

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889319907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774632.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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