Prehistoric hand stencils at Fern Cave, North Queensland (Australia): environmental and chronological implications of Raman spectroscopy and FT-IR imaging results

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2617-2624

  Goodall, Rosemary A ^a   David, Bruno ^b   Kershaw, Peter ^b   Fredericks, Peter M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cave art; Fern Cave; FT IR imaging; Raman

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHRONOLOGY; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ROCK ART;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 70349783619     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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