caa a22 4500 38805588X CHVBK 20180307125106.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00086361 doi S0003598X00086361 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00086361 Spooner N. A. Environmental Geochemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. nspooner@coombs.anu.edu.au Human occupation at Jinmium, northern Australia: 116,000 years ago or much less? [Elektronische Daten] [N. A. Spooner] The rock-shelter of Jinmium in the Northern Territory of Australia hit the headlines a year-and-a-half ago when TL dates suggested human occupation might date from 116,000 years ago. Such dates were much earlier than any previously obtained for Australia, and thus suggested the continent was colonized at a very early stage in human dispersal around the Pacific. However, some TL dating is notoriously difficult to interpret, and here Nigel Spooner has re-assessed one of the later dates in the Jinmium sequence. His interpretation calls into doubt some of the earlier claims. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/275(1998-03), 173-178 0003-598X 72:275<173 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Spooner N. A. Environmental Geochemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. nspooner@coombs.anu.edu.au NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/275(1998-03), 173-178 0003-598X 72:275<173 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge