Faces of the ancestors revealed: Discovery and dating of a Pleistocene-age petroglyph in Lene Hara Cave, East Timor

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 325, 2010, Pages 649-665

  O'Connor, Sue ^a   Aplin, Ken ^b   Pierre, Emma St ^c   Feng, Yue Xing ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Austronesians; East Timor; Human face; Lapita; Petroglyph; Pigment; Pleistocene art; Rock art; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649890128     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00100146     Document Type: Review

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