Ref ID:	37137
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Ono, Rintaro
Title:	Technological and social interactions between hunter- gatherers and new migrants in the prehistoric (Neolithic) islands of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Date:	2021
Source:	Senri Ethnological Studies
Abstract:	This paper explores possible technological and social interactions between aboriginal human groups, mainly fishing/hunter-gatherers, and new Neolithic migrants who had farming, animal husbandry, and fishing/hunter-gathering skills in the islands of Southeast Asia and Near Oceania during Neolithic times. Based on current major hypothesis and archaeological/anthropological data, newer Neolithic migrants or linguistically Austronesian groups originating somewhere along the southern Chinese coast as far as Taiwan migrated to islands in Southeast Asia and Oceania during Neolithic times after 2000 BC. During their migration process, they may have encountered aboriginal human groups who originally migrated to these islands during the late Pleistocene and middle Holocene eras with a lifestyle based on hunting, fishing, and gathering. Their social and technological interactions are not yet clear from current archaeological findings. However, the material culture of the Lapita migrants, who first migrated from Taiwan to Island Southeast Asia as well as Near and Remote Oceania islands, indicates possible technological interactions with the aboriginal Melanesian people during the initial waves of migration. Their material culture has been identified as the ‘Lapita Cultural Complex’ in Oceania archaeology. Here, the potential prehistoric social and technological interactions between newer migrants (farmers/Neolithic peoples) and aboriginal hunter-gathers in the islands of Southeast Asia and Oceania are discussed, particularly in Oceania, by focusing on their maritime technology.
Volume:	106
Page Start:	127
Page End:	148