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Richard G Roberts

Archaeology

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Archaeology And Age Of A New Hominin From Flores, In Eastern Indonesia, Michael Morwood, R Soejono, Richard Roberts, T. Sutikna, Christian Turney, Kira Westaway, W Rink, Jian-Xin Zhao, Gerrit Van Den Bergh, Rokhus Awe Due, Douglas Hobbs, M Moore, M Bird, L Fifield Mar 2013

Archaeology And Age Of A New Hominin From Flores, In Eastern Indonesia, Michael Morwood, R Soejono, Richard Roberts, T. Sutikna, Christian Turney, Kira Westaway, W Rink, Jian-Xin Zhao, Gerrit Van Den Bergh, Rokhus Awe Due, Douglas Hobbs, M Moore, M Bird, L Fifield

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Excavations at Liang Bua, a large limestone cave on the island of Flores in eastern Indonesia, have yielded evidence for a population of tiny hominins, sufficiently distinct anatomically to be assigned to a new species, Homo floresiensis1. The finds comprise the cranial and some post-cranial remains of one individual, as well as a premolar from another individual in older deposits. Here we describe their context, implications and the remaining archaeological uncertainties. Dating by radiocarbon (14C), luminescence, uranium-series and electron spin resonance (ESR) methods indicates that H. floresiensis existed from before 38,000 years ago (kyr) until at …

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Archaeology: Progress And Pitfalls In Radiocarbon Dating, Christian Turney, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs Mar 2013

Archaeology: Progress And Pitfalls In Radiocarbon Dating, Christian Turney, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs

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Luminescence Dating In Archaeology, With Specific Reference To Southeast Asia, Richard Roberts Mar 2013

Luminescence Dating In Archaeology, With Specific Reference To Southeast Asia, Richard Roberts

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Archaeology And Australian Megafauna, Richard Roberts, Hiroyuki Yoshida, T Flannery, Linda Ayliffe, Jon M Olley, Gavin Prideaux, G Laslett, A Baynes, M Smith, Richard Jones, B Smith Mar 2013

Archaeology And Australian Megafauna, Richard Roberts, Hiroyuki Yoshida, T Flannery, Linda Ayliffe, Jon M Olley, Gavin Prideaux, G Laslett, A Baynes, M Smith, Richard Jones, B Smith

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