Where: Papua New Guinea (3.9° S, 152.8° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 152.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Cultural deposits indicate intermittent occupation from 35,000 to 20,000 B.P., when the site was abandoned until 16,000 B.P. The most intensive occupation was from 14,000 to 10,000 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 194696: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2018

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