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Unquiet slumbers: the return of the Kow Swamp burials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sandra Bowdler*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia

Extract

Another view is given on issues arising from the return of the Kow Swamp human remains, discussed by John Mulvaney in the March 1991 ANTIQUITY.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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