High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1815-1820

  Wilmshurst, Janet M ^a   Hunt, Terry L ^b   Lipo, Carl P ^c   Anderson, Atholl J ^d  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NEW ZEALAND; POLYNESIA; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; POLYNESIA;

EID: 79952167545     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015876108     Document Type: Article

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