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Ref ID: 26788
Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: O'Connor, Sue
Aplin, Ken
St. Pierre, Emma
Feng, Yue-xing
Title: Faces of the ancestors revealed: discovery and dating of a Pleistocene-age petroglyph in Lene Hara Cave, East Timor
Date: 2010
Source: Antiquity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00100146
Abstract: A petroglyph showing a human face found in East Timor is dated to the late Pleistocene. It recalls ancient Australian forms and raises the possibility of connecting early cave art with the better known painted figures of Lapita/Austronesian art ten millennia later. This new discovery at a known cave shows what precious evidence still lies in store even in well-trodden places.
Date Created: 4/18/2018
Volume: 84
Number: 325
Page Start: 649
Page End: 665