Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1087-1091

  Morwood, M J ^a   Soejono, R P ^b   Roberts, R G ^c   Sutikna, T ^b   Turney, C S M ^c   Westaway, K E ^c   Rink, W J ^d   Zhao, J X ^e   Van Den Bergh, G D ^f   Due, Rokus Awe ^b   Hobbs, D R ^a   Moore, M W ^a   Bird, M I ^g   Fifield, L K ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b Indonesian Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVES; DEPOSITS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXCAVATION; LIMESTONE; LUMINESCENCE; URANIUM;

ANIMAL REMAINS; ARCHAEOLOGY; DWARFED SPECIES; FLORES;

BIODIVERSITY;

CARBON 14; LIMESTONE; URANIUM; CARBON;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HOMINID; NEW SPECIES; PLEISTOCENE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HOMINID; HUMAN; INDONESIA; LUMINESCENCE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; SURVIVAL; TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PREDATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETON; SKULL; TIME; TOOTH;

ASIA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; LIANG BUA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; HOMO; HOMO ERECTUS; HOMO ERGASTER; HOMO SAPIENS; VARANUS KOMODOENSIS;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKELETON; SKULL; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 7744228241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02956     Document Type: Article

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