Ref ID:	26776
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Pavlides, Christina Gosden, Chris
Title:	35,000-year-old sites in the rainforests of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Date:	1994
Source:	Antiquity
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00047104
Abstract:	The growing story of early settlement in the northwest Pacific islands is moving from coastal sites into the rainforest. Evidence of Pleistocene cultural layers have been discovered in open-site excavations at Yombon, an area containing shifting hamlets, in West New Britain's interior tropical rainforest. These sites, the oldest in New Britain, may presently stand as the oldest open sites discovered in rainforest anywhere in the world.
Date Created:	4/18/2018
Volume:	68
Number:	260
Page Start:	604
Page End:	610