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Early agriculture in New Guinea and the Torres Strait divide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Harris
David Harris*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square wc1H 0PY, England
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Abstract

The high and low islands of Torres Strait, scattered between the tip of Queensland and the coast of Papua New Guinea, make a unique frontier in later world prehistory: between a continent of hunter-gatherers and the majority world of cultivators. Consideration of just what archaeology there is in the Torres Strait Islands, and of its date, improve on the conventional question: was the Strait a bridge or a barrier?

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 265 , 1995 , pp. 848 - 854
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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