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Rock art and inter-regional interaction in northeastern Australian prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruno David  and
Noelene Cole
Bruno David
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4067, Australia
Noelene Cole
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioural Sciences, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld, Australia
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The Cape York peninsula, in tropical Queensland, shows distinct regional pattern in its recent rock art. And there is regional pattern also in the exchange networks of ethnohistorical times. Do these patterns bear a relationship?

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 245 , December 1990 , pp. 788 - 806
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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