Fission-track ages of stone tools and fossils on the east Indonesian island of Flores

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6672, 1998, Pages 173-176

  Morwood, M J ^a   O'Sullivan, P B ^b   Aziz, F ^c   Raza, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Geological Research and Development Centre Bandung   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LITHIC ARTEFACT; WATERCRAFT;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; INDONESIA; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

INDONESIA, FLORES;

EID: 0032510492     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32401     Document Type: Article

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