Nine new painted rock art sites from East Timor in the context of the Western Pacific Region.

From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: O'Connor, Sue | Copyright information

NINE NEW PAINTED ROCK ART SITES were located in East Timor during reconnaissance over two field seasons in July-August 2000 and July-September 2001 (O'Connor et al. 2002, Fig. 1, sites 5-11 and 14-15). This paper provides a preliminary report on these sites in the context of previously recorded rock art sites in East Timor and comparisons are made with some other areas of painted rock art in the western Pacific (defined here after Wilson (2002:10) as including the area from Timor i...

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