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The Australian transition: real and perceived boundaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Frankel
David Frankel*
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School of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3083, Australia
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Abstract

The Pleistocene to Holocene transition is both a reality of climate history, and a notion of the prehistorian. A century of approaches to Australian archaeology guides the frameworks of the issue today.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 265 , 1995, pp. 649 - 655
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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