kris_inwood , Disease, violence, fertility decline & resource loss point to a high pre-contact Indigenous population in Tasmania & subsequent fast decline, according to Roger Byard & Hamish Maxwell-Stewart in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
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