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Variations in hunter-gatherer skeletal health in prehistoric Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Christopher J. Knüsel
Christopher J. Knüsel*
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Department of Archaeological Sciences, Bradford University, Bradford BD7 1DP, England E-mail: cknusel@bradford.ac.uk
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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 703 - 706
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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