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Late Quaternary change in the mountains of New Guinea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Geoff Hope  and
Jack Golson
Geoff Hope
Affiliation:
Division of Archaeology & Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
Jack Golson
Affiliation:
Division of Archaeology & Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
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Abstract

At the south and north limits of our region are mountainous areas very different from the open arid spaces of the Australian continent between. In the north, the high country of New Guinea offers a complex and well-studied environmental sequence as the arena for early and puzzling human adaptations, precursor of the extraordinary societies of the island today.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 265 , 1995 , pp. 818 - 830
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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