Mobility of early islanders in the Philippines during the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene boundary: pXRF-analysis of obsidian artefacts

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 149-157

  Neri, Leee Anthony M ^a   Pawlik, Alfred F ^a   Reepmeyer, Christian ^b   Mijares, Armand Salvador B ^a   Paz, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human migration; Island Southeast Asia; Maritime interaction; Obsidian sourcing; Philippines; Pleistocene Holocene boundary; PXRF

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; OBSIDIAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POPULATION MIGRATION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

MIMAROPA; MINDORO; PALAWAN [MIMAROPA]; PALAWAN [PALAWAN (PRV)]; PHILIPPINES;

GABAZA;

EID: 84934900141     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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