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Pleistocene Site in the Malay Peninsula

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IT was to be regretted that until recently no artefacts of Pleistocene age had been found in the Malay Peninsula, and particularly so because of the relationship of the peninsula to the now sunken Sundaland which formerly joined Sumatra, Java and Borneo to the mainland of Asia.

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  2. "The Geology and Archæology of the Vaal River Basin", Geological Survey, Union of S. Africa, Mem. 35, PI. VIII, No. 1.

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COLLINGS, H. Pleistocene Site in the Malay Peninsula. Nature 142, 575–576 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142575b0

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