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Early human burials in the western Pacific: evidence for c.3000 year old occupation on Palau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Scott M. Fitzpatrick
Scott M. Fitzpatrick*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
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The author reports the oldest human skeletal assemblage found so far in the pacific Islands: at the site of Chalechol Ra Orrak on Palau, Micronesia.

Keywords

MicronesiaPalauburials
Type
Research
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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 298 , December 2003 , pp. 719 - 731
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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