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Tasmania and the constitution of ‘the dawn of humanity’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tim Murray
Tim Murray*
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Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia
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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 730 - 743
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