Pleistocene dates for the human occupation of New Ireland, northern Melanesia
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 331 (6158) , 707-709
- https://doi.org/10.1038/331707a0
Abstract
Pleistocene dates from three cave sites indicate the human capacity to colonise across two oceanic straits to the east of a former Tasmania-Australia-New Guinea continent by 33 kyr BP. The sites demonstrate exploitation of costal marine and lowland tropical forest resources. They extend Pleistocene occupation into island Melanesia and demonstrate that the large islands of northern Melanesia have an antiquity of human occupation of the same order as the adjacent Greater Australian continent.Keywords
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