Where: Papua New Guinea (2.8° S, 151.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 151.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Panakiwuk was first occupied at 15,000–14,000 B.P. [approximate age, based on calibrated radiocarbon (14C) dates], but occupation seems to have been sporadic. The major archaeological deposits date from 10,000 B.P. to 8,000 B.P. The site was abandoned for most of the Holocene epoch, with minor reoccupation after 1,600 B.P.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. W. Steadman, J. P. White, and J. Allen. 1999. Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: extinctions on a large Melanesian island. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96:2563-2568 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 194693: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2018

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