Continuity in tropical cave use: Examples from East Timor and the Aru Islands, Maluku

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 180-192

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

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

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aru Islands; Cave use; Cultural landscapes; East Timor; Holocene; Pleistocene; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CAVE; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT;

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

GABAZA;

EID: 24344434477     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2005.0015     Document Type: Article

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