Revisiting the Past: Changing Interpretations of Pleistocene Settlement Subsistence and Demography in Northern Australia

Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-47

  O'Connor, Sue ^a,b   Veth, Peter ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Demography; Deserts; Glaciers; Pleistocene; Subsistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889787250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773475.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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