Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 191, Issue , 2018, Pages 431-439

  Bird, Michael I ^a   Beaman, Robin J ^a   Condie, Scott A ^b   Cooper, Alan ^c   Ulm, Sean ^a   Veth, Peter ^d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human dispersal; Palaeogeography; Pleistocene; Sahul; Southeastern Asia; Wallacea

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS;

AUSTRALIA; COLONISATION; DRIFT MODEL; HUMAN COLONIZATION; HUMAN DISPERSAL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; SAHUL; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; WALLACEA;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; COGNITION; COLONIZATION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MONSOON; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARU ISLANDS; AUSTRALIA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALUKU [INDONESIA]; MOLUCCAS; NEW GUINEA; ROTE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; WALLACEA;

GABAZA;

EID: 85047223175     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.027     Document Type: Article

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