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Shell beads from Mandu Mandu Creek rock-shelter, Cape Range peninsula, Western Australia, dated before 30,000 b.p.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Kate Morse
Kate Morse*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth WA 6000, Australia
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A site dated well back into the Pleistocene in Western Australia yields modified shells, seen as a further evidence of the attributes of modern humans from an early Australian context.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 257 , December 1993 , pp. 877 - 883
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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