Adaptation and foraging from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene: Excavation at Bubog on Ilin Island, Philippines

Journal of Field Archaeology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 230-247

  Pawlik, Alfred F ^a   Piper, Philip J ^b   Faylona, Marie Grace Pamela G ^c   Padilla Jr , Sabino G ^d   Carlos, Jane ^a   Mijares, Armand S B Mijares ^a   Vallejo Jr , Benjamin ^a   Reyes, Marian ^a   Amano, Noel ^a   Ingicco, Thomas ^a   Porr, Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c National Museum of the Philippines   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foraging strategies; Hominin migrations; Island adaptations; Philippine archipelago; Pleistocene Holocene adaptations; Sundaland and Wallacea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904884779     PISSN: 00934690     EISSN: 20424582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0093469014Z.00000000090     Document Type: Article

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