When did humans first arrive in Greater Australia and why is it important to know?

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 132-146

  O'Connell, James F ^b   Allen, Jim ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Australia; Colonization; Luminescence dating techniques; Pleistocene archaeology; Radiocarbon chronology; Spread of modern humans

Indexed keywords

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0032326006     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)6:4<132::AID-EVAN3>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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