Carpenters Gap 1: A 47,000 year old record of indigenous adaption and innovation

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 191, Issue , 2018, Pages 204-228

  Maloney, Tim ^a   O'Connor, Sue ^a   Wood, Rachel ^a   Aplin, Ken ^a   Balme, Jane ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian modelling; Colonization; Kimberley; LGM refugia; Pleistocene; Sahul

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

ANIMAL REMAINS; AUSTRALIA; BAYESIAN MODELLING; COLONISATION; KIMBERLEY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LGM REFUGIUM; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; SAHUL;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INNOVATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; REFUGIUM; SKELETAL REMAINS;

AUSTRALIA; KIMBERLEY [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85047116030     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.016     Document Type: Article

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