Life before Lapita: New Developments in Melanesia's Long-Term History

Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 205-227

  Pavlides, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Melanesia; Mid holocene; Quarrying; Social change; Stone tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889840042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773475.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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