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AMS Dating of Human Bone from Palau: New Evidence for a Pre-2000 BP Settlement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Scott M Fitzpatrick
Scott M Fitzpatrick*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA. Email: malthus@darkwing.uoregon.edu.
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Abstract

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Direct dating of a human bone fragment from the Chelechol ra Orrak site (western Micronesia) has yielded one of the earliest dates for Palau thus far. This date compares well with recently collected paleoenvironmental evidence and radiocarbon dates on Babeldaob Island suggesting that settlement of the Palauan archipelago took place much earlier than previously thought.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , 2002 , pp. 217 - 221
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Copyright © 2002 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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