| Ref ID: | 22543 |
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| Ref Type: | Book Section |
| Authors: | Rintaro Ono, Naoki Nakajima, Hiroe Nishizawa, Shizuo Oda, Santoso Soegondho |
| Title: | Maritime migration and lithic assemblage on the Talaud Islands in northern Wallacea during the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Source: | Emergence and diversity of modern human behavior in paleolithic Asia |
| Place of Publication: | College Station, Texas |
| Publisher: | Texas A&M University Press |
| Abstract: | While the migration to Australia and New Guinea by modern humans represents the earliest evidence of intentional and relatively long distance (>50-90 km) sea-faring in the world dated back to over 45,000 years ago, relatively little is known about the antiquity and nature of seafaring and the coastal occupation of Wallacea, which must have been the nursery grounds for these early seafarers. This paper reports and discusses the results of our excavation of Leang Sarru on the Talaud Islands, which is a great distance (>100 km) from neighboring islands in Wallacea. The excavation revealed cultural layers spanning from 35,000 to 32,000 cal BP to the early Holocene, suggesting that modern humans could cross the sea over 100 km to reach the Talaud Islands by 35,000 cal BP. Comparative analyses of the lithic assemblages with those from other Pleistocene-Holocene sites in Wallacea indicate that the lithic technologies and production methods represented at most of the sites in Wallacea were similar and did not change dramatically throughout the late Pleistocene, although greater variation in the types of lithic tools appeared after the early Holocene. Along with such a pattern of change in the lithic assemblage, our previous analysis of shell remains from the site showed significant change in marine exploitation on the Talaud Islands during the Late Pleistocene and Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene. We hypothesize that these behavioral changes at Leang Sarru occurred in association with climatic and sea-level changes. |
| Date Created: | 5/11/2015 |
| Editors: | Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, Goebel, Ted Hiroyuki Sato, Akira Ono |
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| Page End: | 213 |