TY - SER AU - David,Bruno AU - Roberts,Richard AU - Tuniz,Claudio AU - Jones,Rhys AU - Head,John TI - New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonization of Australia KW - ANTROPOLOGIA N1 - Antiquity 71 (1997): 183-188 N2 - The human settlement of Australia falls into that period where dating is hard because it is near or beyond the reliable limit of radiocarbon study; instead a range of luminescence methods are being turned to (such as thermoluminescence at Jinmium: December 1996 ANTIQUITY). Ngarrabullgan Cave, a rock-shelter in Queensland, now offers a good suite of radiocarbon determinations which match well a pair of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates Ñ encouraging sign that OSL determinations can be relied on ER -