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Offshore islands and maritime explorations in Australian prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sandra Bowdler
Sandra Bowdler*
Affiliation:
Centre for Archaeology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia
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Abstract

The settlement of mainland Australia at an early (and uncertainly known) date required a water-crossing. What about the settlement of the islands — neither numerous nor large compared with the island continent itself — that are offshore from Australia? The evidence reviewed shows a late settlement for nearly all of them, and a perplexing lack of pattern.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 945 - 958
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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