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A ‘tree’ is not a ‘train’: mistaken analogies in Pacific archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Edward Terrell
John Edward Terrell*
Affiliation:
Field Museum of Natural History, Roosevelt Road & Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60605, USA terrell@fmnh.org
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Abstract

Archaeologists and anthropologists work alongside, but outside, conventional science, Quite often, as here, misunderstandings and misreadings of archaeological data and interpretation can distort the reading of our discipline!

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Austinmitochondrial DNAPolynesiacolonizationanthropology

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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 284 , June 2000 , pp. 331 - 333
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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