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Nicholas (2007: 274) has observed:

The claim that archaeology is yet another colonial imposition on Indigenous peoples is one that archaeologists find disturbing, but have often dismissed simply as postcolonial rhetoric.

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Jones, D.S. (2023). Cultural Heritage Cultures. In: Planning for Urban Country. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7192-3_5

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