Early Holocene shell fish hooks from Lene Hara Cave, East Timor establish complex fishing technology was in use in Island South East Asia five thousand years before Austronesian settlement

Antiquity

Volumn 79, Issue 304, 2005, Pages 249-256

  O'Connor, Sue ^a   Veth, Peter ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies   (Australia)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; East Timor; Fishing; Island South East Asia

Indexed keywords

FISHING; HOLOCENE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TIMOR-LESTE; WORLD;

EID: 21144441369     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0011405X     Document Type: Article

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