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The Bone Readers: Atoms, Genes and the Politics of Australia's Deep Past

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The Bone Readers: Atoms, genes and the politics of Australia's deep past - Tuniz, Claudio, and Gillespie, Richard, and Jones, Cheryl
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Who owns the past? How do you read ancient bones? And what do artefacts, pollen and genes from the ice ages tell us about our origins? Using ever more refined techniques, scientists can now describe ancient landscapes and the early humans and animals once inhabiting them. The Bone Readers examines the facts and myths about the first human arrival in Australia and its region; what modern DNA tells us about the origin of Australian Aborigines; theories on the Indonesian hobbits'; and who or what killed off Australia's giant ...

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The Bone Readers: Atoms, genes and the politics of Australia's deep past 2009, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW

ISBN-13: 9781741147285

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