Sentient sea: Seascapes as spiritscapes

Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 149-157

  McNiven, Ian J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315427737-25     Document Type: Chapter

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