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Technological organization and settlement in southwest Tasmania after the glacial maximum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Ian J. McNiven
Ian J. McNiven*
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10 Fanny Street, Moonee Ponds VIC 3039, Australia
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Abstract

A growing quantity of data about the late Pleistocene sequence in Tasmania has not been matched by an equivalent clear understanding of just what are the patterns of its lithic record. A new model is developed.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 75 - 82
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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