Uranium-series dating rock art in East Timor

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 991-996

  Aubert, Maxime ^a,b   O'Connor, Sue ^b   McCulloch, Malcolm ^b   Mortimer, Graham ^b   Watchman, Alan ^c   Richer LaFlèche, Marc ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

East Timor; Human evolution; Multi collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Rock art; Uranium series dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ROCK ART; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; EURASIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE;

EID: 33847643739     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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