Excavation at Lene Hara Cave establishes occupation in East Timor at least 30,000-35,000 years ago

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 291, 2002, Pages 45-50

  O'Connor, Sue ^a   Spriggs, Matthew ^a   Veth, Peter ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

East Timor; Indonesia; Lene Hara; Middle Palaeolithic; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012955613     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0003598x0008978x     Document Type: Article

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