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Archaeology of the Massim Island Region, Papua New Guinea

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Shaw, B. (2019). Archaeology of the Massim Island Region, Papua New Guinea. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3444-1

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