The archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia /
"This volume describes the results of the first archaeological survey and excavations carried out in the fascinating and remote Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia between 1995 and 1997. The naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who stopped here in search of the Birds of Paradise on his voyage through t...
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Canberra, Australia :
Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Aru Islands in perspective : a general introduction / Matthew Spriggs, Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth
- 2. Environmental change in the Aru Islands / Geoffrey Hope and Ken Aplin
- 3. Mammals and other vertebrates from late quaternary archaeological sites on Pulau Kobroor, Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia / Ken Aplin and Juliette Pasveer
- 4. Three seasons of archaeological survey in the Aru Islands, 1995-97 / Matthew Spriggs, Peter Veth, Sue O'Connor, Husni Mohammad, Ako Jatmiko, Widya Nayati, Aliza Diniasti Saleh and Djoko Witjaksono
- 5. The Ujir site : an early historic maritime settlement in Northwestern Aru / Peter Veth, Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs, Widya Nayati, Ako Jatmiko and Husni Mohammad
- 6. Wangil Midden : a late prehistoric site, with remarks on ethnographic pottery making / Peter Veth, Matthew Spriggs, Sue O'Connor and Aliza Diniasti Saleh
- 7. Liang Nabulei Lisa : a late pleistocene and holocene sequence from the Aru Islands / Sue O'Connor, Ken Aplin, Juliette Pasveer and Geoff Hope
- 8. Human remains from Liang Nabulei Lisa, Aru Islands / David Bulbeck
- 9. Liang Lemdubu : a pleistocene cave site in the Aru Islands / Sue O'Connor, Ken Aplin, Katherine Szabo, Juliette Pasveer, Peter Veth and Matthew Spriggs
- 10. Artefacts on Aru : evaluating the technological sequences / Peter Hiscock
- 11. Bone artefacts from Liang Lemdubu and Liang Nabulei Lisa, Aru Islands / Juliette Pasveer
- 12. The last glacial maximum human burial from Liang Lemdubu in Northern Sahulland / David Bulbeck
- 13. Isoleucine epimerization in Casuarius eggshells from archaeological sites in the Aru Islands, Liang Lemdubu and Liang Nabulei Lisa / Simon J. Clarke and Gifford H. Miller
- 14. On the cultural history of the Aru Islands : some conclusions / Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs and Peter Veth.
