ABSTRACT
This paper reports AMS C bone apatite dates for human and faunal bones from the Wajak Cave, and for samples from three nearby sites in central Java. With the possible exception of the Wajak faunal date, our bone apatite C dates suggest that the human and faunal samples from these four sites fall within the Holocene. In the hope of obtaining independent information on possible ages, samples of faunal bones from Wajak, Gua Jimbe and Comer Cave were sent to Dr. Shuji Matsu'ura at the Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, for fluorine analyses. However, if the Wadjak bone remains are referred to the late Upper Pleistocene, one plausible assignment of the Comer Cave remains may be mainly to Pleistocene to beginning Holocene. Speculation on the age and morphological relationships of the Wajak skulls over the past 100 years has ranged from Pleistocene to subrecent, and possibly ancestral to the Australian Aborigines.
