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Repainting Australian rock art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sandra Bowdler
Sandra Bowdler*
Affiliation:
Centre for Prehistory, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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Where and when does a living culture cease, where and when does archaeology begin? The issue has been raised again, this time concerning the repainting of Australian rock pictures.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 517 - 523
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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