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Serpents Glen (Karnatukul): New Histories for Deep time Attachment to Country in Australia’s Western Desert Cover

Serpents Glen (Karnatukul): New Histories for Deep time Attachment to Country in Australia’s Western Desert

By: Jo McDonald  
Open Access
|Jul 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-624 | Journal eISSN: 2047-6930
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 5, 2019
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