Blunt and to the Point: Changing Technological Strategies in Holocene Australia

Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 69-95

  Hiscock, Peter ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artifact; Colonization; Holocene; Scrapers; Stone tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889807777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773475.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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