Chaos and selection in catastrophic environments: Willaumez peninsula, papua new guinea

Living Under the Shadow: Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 42-66

  Torrence, Robin ^a   Doelman, Trudy ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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