Terminal Pleistocene to mid-Holocene occupation and an early cremation burial at Ille Cave, Palawan, Philippines

Antiquity

Volumn 82, Issue 316, 2008, Pages 318-335

  Lewis, Helen ^a   Paz, Victor ^b   Lara, Myra ^b   Barton, Huw ^c   Piper, Philip ^b   Ochoa, Janine ^b   Vitales, Timothy ^b   Carlos, A Jane ^b   Higham, Tom ^d   Neri, Leee ^b   Hernandez, Vito ^b   Stevenson, Janelle ^e   Robles, Emil Charles ^b   Ragragio, Andrea ^b   Padilla, Rojo ^b   Solheim II, Wilhelm ^b   Ronquillo, Wilfredo ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f National Museum of the Philippines   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Cremation; Early to mid Holocene; Ille Cave; Late Palaeolithic; Occupation; Palawan; Philippines; Radiocarbon dates; Southeast Asia; Terminal Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 45049083841     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00096836     Document Type: Article

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