Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art of Timor-Leste and Kisar Island, Island Southeast Asia

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue O'Connor ◽  
Mahirta ◽  
Daud Tanudirjo ◽  
Marlon Ririmasse ◽  
Muhammad Husni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Neighbouring Island ◽  
Metal Age ◽  
The Western Pacific

Painted rock art occurs throughout the islands of the Western Pacific and has previously been argued to have motif and design elements in common, indicating that it was created within the context of a shared symbolic system. Here we report five new painted rock-art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and the painted art corpus in Timor-Leste, the independent nation that forms the eastern part of the neighbouring island of Timor. We examine the motifs in the Kisar art and suggest that, rather than being Neolithic in age, some of the figurative motifs more likely have a Metal Age origin, which in this region places them within the last 2500 years.

Early Metal Age interactions in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania: jar burials from Aru Manara, northern Moluccas

Antiquity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (364) ◽  
pp. 1023-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rintaro Ono ◽  
Adhi Agus Oktaviana ◽  
Marlon Ririmasse ◽  
Masami Takenaka ◽  
Chiaki Katagiri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Metal Age

Early setlement of Island Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific

Antiquity ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (240) ◽  
pp. 547-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Spriggs ◽  
Christopher Chippindale
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Tropical Islands ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
Bismarck Archipelago ◽  
The Western Pacific

It was a quarter of a century ago that ANTIQUITY first announced the ‘Pleistocene colonization of Australia’, when Mulvaney (1964) reported secure dates before 12,000 b.p. from Kenniff Cave, Queensland. The last three years alone have seen dates from New Guinea of around 40,000 b.p., early dates from the offshore islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, and dates from Australia itself that show a rapid colonization of both the arid central desert and cold, wet Tasmania – environments very different from the tropical islands of Southeast Asia, whence the first Australasian populations must surely have come. It is a record with great implications for early settlement elsewhere, most plainly of the American continents.

The global implications of the early surviving rock art of greater Southeast Asia

Antiquity ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (342) ◽  
pp. 1050-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul S.C. Taçon ◽  
Noel Hidalgo Tan ◽  
Sue O’Connor ◽  
Ji Xueping ◽  
Li Gang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Similar Form ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
The Difference

The rock art of Southeast Asia has been less thoroughly studied than that of Europe or Australia, and it has generally been considered to be more recent in origin. New dating evidence from Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, however, demonstrates that the earliest motifs (hand stencils and naturalistic animals) are of late Pleistocene age and as early as those of Europe. The similar form of the earliest painted motifs in Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia suggests that they are the product of a shared underlying behaviour, but the difference in context (rockshelters) indicates that experiences in deep caves cannot have been their inspiration.

scholarly journals Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Oliveira ◽  
Kathrin Nägele ◽  
Selina Carlhoff ◽  
Irina Pugach ◽  
Toetik Koesbardiati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
The North ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Time Estimates ◽  
Continental Shelves ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Genome Wide Data

Previous research indicates that the human genetic diversity found in Wallacea - islands in present-day Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste that were never part of the Sunda or Sahul continental shelves - has been shaped by complex interactions between migrating Austronesian farmers and indigenous hunter-gatherer communities. Here, we provide new insights into this region's demographic history based on genome-wide data from 16 ancient individuals (2600-250 yrs BP) from islands of the North Moluccas, Sulawesi, and East Nusa Tenggara. While the ancestry of individuals from the northern islands fit earlier views of contact between groups related to the Austronesian expansion and the first colonization of Sahul, the ancestry of individuals from the southern islands revealed additional contributions from Mainland Southeast Asia, which seems to predate the Austronesian admixture in the region. Admixture time estimates for the oldest individuals of Wallacea are closer to archaeological estimates for the Austronesian arrival into the region than are admixture time estimates for present-day groups. The decreasing trend in admixture times exhibited by younger individuals supports a scenario of multiple or continuous admixture involving Papuan- and Asian-related groups. Our results clarify previously debated times of admixture and suggest that the Neolithic dispersals into Island Southeast Asia are associated with the spread of multiple genetic ancestries.

Archaeology and the Austronesian expansion: where are we now?

Antiquity ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (328) ◽  
pp. 510-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Spriggs
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
The Western Pacific ◽  
Vast Area

For many years the author has been tracking the spread of the Neolithic of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and its extension eastwards into the western Pacific, as a proxy for dating the spread of the Austronesian (AN) languages across that same vast area. Here he recalls the evidence, updates the hypothesis and poses some new questions.

Fataluku

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-425
Author(s):  
Tyler M. Heston ◽  
Stephanie Locke
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
East Timor ◽  
The West ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
West Timor ◽  
Eastern Half

Fataluku ([fataluku], ISO 639-3: ddg) is a language spoken by approximately 37,000 people on the eastern end of Timor-Leste (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2016). Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is an independent nation that occupies the eastern half of the island of Timor in island Southeast Asia, which it shares politically with Indonesia in the west. Timor is located north of Australia, between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Bali in the west and New Guinea in the east.

Dong Son drums from Timor-Leste: prehistoric bronze artefacts in Island Southeast Asia

Antiquity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (367) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno Vasco Oliveira ◽  
Sue O'Connor ◽  
Peter Bellwood
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Island Southeast Asia ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Image Position

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