Continuity in tropical cave use: examples from East Timor and the Aru Islands, Maluku. From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: O'Connor, Sue; Spriggs, Matthew; Veth, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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The Aru Islands and East Timor fall within the biogeographic region known as Wallacea and have lain within the tropics for the known history of human occupation. Recent research has identified archaeological sequences that parallel the older radiocarbon chronologies from Australia. Terminal Pleistocene hunter-gatherer assemblages recovered from at least six caves register the introduction of a Neolithic technocomplex after ca. 4000 B.P. in the form of pottery, d...

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