New evidence from East Timor contributes to our understanding of earliest modern human colonisation east of the Sunda Shelf

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 313, 2007, Pages 523-535

  O'Connor, Sue ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

East Timor; Homo floresiensis; Homo sapiens; Human colonisation; Island Southeast Asia; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COLONIZATION; HOMINID; PLEISTOCENE; SHELTER;

ASIA; EURASIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES; SUNDA SHELF; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE;

HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 34848880511     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00095569     Document Type: Article

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