Post by Sharon Faulkner on Nov 17, 2007 12:36:37 GMT -5
New Dating Technique Tested at Lena Hara Cave
An international team lead by Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University and reported in a recent article in the Journal of Archaeological Science have developed a new rock art dating technique based on calcite laminations, and tested the technique on deposits at Lene Hara Cave.
Lene Hara Cave is a large limestone solution cave located on the island of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Excavated beginning in the 1990s by Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University, Lene Hara has proven to contain several stacked occupations, the oldest between 30,000 and 35,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of pre-Lapita fishing has been found at Lene Hara, in the form of shell fish hooks, made of Trochus niloticus and recently dated between 9741+/- 60 years before the present.
archaeology.about.com/b/2007/11/16/new-dating-technique-at-lena-hara-cave.htm
An international team lead by Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University and reported in a recent article in the Journal of Archaeological Science have developed a new rock art dating technique based on calcite laminations, and tested the technique on deposits at Lene Hara Cave.
Lene Hara Cave is a large limestone solution cave located on the island of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Excavated beginning in the 1990s by Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University, Lene Hara has proven to contain several stacked occupations, the oldest between 30,000 and 35,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of pre-Lapita fishing has been found at Lene Hara, in the form of shell fish hooks, made of Trochus niloticus and recently dated between 9741+/- 60 years before the present.
archaeology.about.com/b/2007/11/16/new-dating-technique-at-lena-hara-cave.htm