New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: Implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonization of Australia

Antiquity

Volumn 71, Issue 271, 1997, Pages 183-188

  David, Bruno ^a   Roberts, Richard ^b   Tuniz, Claudio ^c   Jones, Rhys ^d   Head, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DATING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031394324     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00084672     Document Type: Article

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