Where: Papua New Guinea (2.9° S, 151.4° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 151.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• The deposits at Balof 1 are ~1 m deep and substantially reworked by oven pits dug in recent centuries. Deposits at Balof 2 are ~2 m deep and relatively undisturbed, as corroborated by a sequence of 14C dates. Both sites are as old as 14,000 B.P. but were occupied only intermittently.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; 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 194694: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.06.2018

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