Investigating activity and mobility patterns during the mid-holocene in northern Vietnam

The Routledge Handbook of Bioarchaeology in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 110-136

  Huffer, Damien ^a   Oxenham, Marc ^b  

^a MUSEUM CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315725444     Document Type: Chapter

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