The pleistocene colonization and occupation of Australasia

The Cambridge World History Volume I: Introducing World History, to 10,000 BCE

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 443-460

  Hiscock, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84953250596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139194662.019     Document Type: Chapter

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