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- ↑ Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology - Megaw, Vincent, Springer Science+Business Media, pp 4769-4772, 2014, doi : 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2392, Subscription required for full article
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Australian Science 2010
- ↑ "J V S Megaw | Flinders University of South Australia - Academia.edu". flinders.academia.edu. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ↑ Ruth Megaw obituary by Vincent Megaw, The Guardian Wednesday 31 July 2013
- ↑ The Academy Fellows Australian Academy of the Humanities
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