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The Transition on the coastal fringe of Greater Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. M. Beaton
J. M. Beaton*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California — Davis, Davis CA 95616, USA
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Abstract

Australia, with its wide continental shelves, is a difficult region for the study of coastal adaptations over the Transition, as so much land was drowned by the post-glacial sealevel rise. What can be discerned has a place in a larger and longer-term pattern of adaptation.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 265 , 1995 , pp. 798 - 806
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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