Ecological Contingency Accounts for Earliest Seagoing in the Western Pacific Ocean

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 220-230

  Anderson, Atholl ^a,b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bamboo rafts; Pleistocene; seagoing; warm seas; western Pacific

Indexed keywords

BAMBOO; COLONIZATION; COMPLEXITY; CULTURAL HISTORY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LEARNING; MOBILITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEAWATER; WATERWAY TRANSPORT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST); WALLACEA;

GABAZA; MYA;

EID: 85011270532     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2016.1277286     Document Type: Article

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