Early human occupation of northern Australia: archaeology and thermoluminescence dating of Jinmium rock-shelter, Northern Territory

• Autores: R. L. K. Fullagar, D. M. Price, L. M. Head
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 70, Nº 270, 1996, págs. 751-773
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The nature and date of the human colonization of Australia remains a key issue in prehistory at the world scale, for a sufficiently early presence there indicates either Homo sapiens sapiens arriving precociously in a place remote from a supposed African origin, or a greater competence in sea-crossing than has been expected of archaic humans. Stratigraphic integrity, the new science of luminescent dating and the recognition of worked stone and of rock-engraving are immediate issues in this report from far northwestern Australia.