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Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, Melanesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephen Wickler  and
Matthew Spriggs
Stephen Wickler
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Matthew Spriggs
Affiliation:
Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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Pleistocene dates from a rockshelter on Buka Island at the northern end of the Solomons Chain demonstrate human settlement by 28,000 b.p., some 25,000 years earlier than previously reported for this island group.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 237 , December 1988 , pp. 703 - 706
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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