Nombe Rockshelter
A limestone rockshelter in the Porol Range of Simbu Province, in the Papua New Guinea highlands near the Nongefaro, Pila and Nola communities, at roughly 1,700 m elevation. Excavated by Mary-Jane Mountain from 1971 to 1980, its deep stratified deposits record intermittent human presence from the late Pleistocene through to the present and preserve remains of extinct megafauna such as the giant wallaby Protemnodon tumbana, making Nombe a key highland site for the debate over how long humans and now-extinct large marsupials coexisted in New Guinea.
Dated events and their evidence
- 23,550 BCE mainstream
Earliest dated human occupation layer (stone artefacts), c. 25,500 cal BP -> converted to c. 23,550 BCE source
Where
6.1333° S, 145.1500° E
Sources
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