A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and SahulMainly economic and ecological interpretation of archeological data, with brief review of contact ethnography and scattered references to art; reprint Who really killed Tasmanias Aborigines by P. Cobern from The Bulletin 23.3.82 and letters by L. Ryan, D.R. Gregg, S. Cane, J. Clark, S. Bowdler, J. Stockton, D. Orth and C. Perkins, which have been annotated separately. |
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