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Australia: Towards Secure Knowledge of Prehistoric Pictures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Christopher Chippidale
Affiliation:
University Museum of Archaeology & AnthropologyDowning Street combridge CB2 3DZ

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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1993

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