scholarly journals Teknologi Litik di Situs Talimbue, Sulawesi Tenggara: Teknologi Berlanjut dari Masa Pleistosen Akhir Hingga Holosen.

AMERTA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Suryatman Suryatman ◽  
Sue O’ Connor ◽  
David Bulbeck ◽  
Ben Marwick ◽  
Adhi Agus Oktaviana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Quantitative Estimate ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Lithic Technology ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene ◽  
New Perspective

Abstract.  The  Lithic  Technology  at  Talimbue  Site,  Southeast  Sulawesi:  Continuing  Technology from Late Pleistocene up to Holocene Periods. The Talimbue site at Southeast Sulawesi is packed with  lithic  and  these  offer  a  new  perspective  on  the  lithic  technology  of  Sulawesi.  The  absence  of information  on  the  prehistoric  lithic  technology  of  Southeast  Sulawesi  is  a  factor  of  interest  that makes  research  on  knowledge  of  the  Talimbue  site  necessary.  Lithic  artefacts  were  manufactured from  the  terminal  Pleistocene  to  the  Late  Holocene.  This  research  will  disentangle  the  details  of the lithic technology at the Talimbue Site. The analyzed flaked stone artefacts fall into 3 categories, which are retouched flakes, debitage and cores. For its part, debitage was classified into 3 categories, which are complete flakes, broken flakes and debris. The retouch index was also measured so as to provide a quantitative estimate of the level of retouch intensity of the retouched flakes. The results of  the  analysis  indicate  changes  in  the  stone  flake  technology  during  the  period  of  occupation  of the Talimbue Site. The change of technology occurs because the process of adaptation caused by a change of environment. Abstrak. Temuan  litik  yang  sangat  padat  di  Situs  Talimbue  di  Sulawesi  Tenggara  menunjukkan sebuah persepektif baru dalam kajian teknologi litik di Sulawesi. Kekosongan informasi teknologi litik masa prasejarah di wilayah Sulawesi Tenggara adalah hal yang menarik dikaji dalam penelitian di Situs Talimbue. Artefak litik digunakan dari masa Pleistosen Akhir hingga masa Holosen Akhir. Penelitian ini akan menguraikan secara detail bagaimana teknologi litik di Situs Talimbue. Artefak batu diserpih yang dianalisis menjadi 3 kategori, yaitu serpih diretus, serpihan dan batu inti. Serpihan kemudian  diklasifikasi  menjadi  3  kategori,  yaitu  serpih  utuh,  serpih  rusak  dan  tatal.  Pengukuran indeks retus juga dilakukan bertujuan untuk mengestimasi secara kuantitatif tingkat intensitas retus terhadap serpih yang telah diretus. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan perubahan teknologi artefak batu diserpih terjadi selama masa hunian di Situs Talimbue. Perubahan teknologi terjadi karena adanya proses adaptasi yang disebabkan oleh perubahan lingkungan.

Microlithic occurrences associated with sediments dated to terminal Pleistocene-late Holocene in the central Narmada basin, Madhya Pradesh, India

2021 ◽  
pp. SP515-2020-216
Author(s):  
Nupur Tiwari ◽  
P. Morthekai ◽  
K. Krishnan ◽  
Parth R. Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Central India ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene

AbstractThe earliest occurrence of microliths in South Asia dates back to the Late Pleistocene at Mehtakheri (45 ka) and Dhaba (48 ka) in Central India, Jwalapuram 9 in Southern India (38 ka), Kana and Mahadebbara in Northeastern India (42-25 ka) and Batadomba-Lena (35-36 ka) and Fa Hien Lena (48 ka) in Sri Lanka. Microlithic technology is distributed across the entire Indian Subcontinent and chronologically continues up to the Iron Age and Early Historic periods. This paper discusses new data acquired from the first author's doctoral research in the two districts of Madhya Pradesh (Hoshangabad and Sehore), which fall within the central part of the Narmada Basin in central India. We present here the preliminary dates from key areas of distribution to understand the geo-chronological contexts of microliths at Pilikarar, Morpani, and Gurla-Sukkarwada. Initial dates from these respective occurrences range between 12.5 ka and 2.3 ka.

A Good Place to Live: Plants and People at the Santa Elina Rock Shelter (Central Brazil) from Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Rita Scheel-Ybert ◽  
Caroline Bachelet
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Changes ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Central Brazil ◽  
Cultural Preference ◽  
Vegetation And Climate ◽  
Over Time

The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) was recurrently occupied from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We compare sets of previously published anthracological analyses with new data to reconstruct the landscape, vegetation, and climate over the several thousand years of occupation, providing information on firewood management from about 27,000 to about 1500 cal BP. Laboratory analyses followed standard anthracological procedures. We identified 34 botanical families and 84 genera in a sample of almost 5,000 charcoal pieces. The Leguminosae family dominates the assemblage, followed by Anacardiaceae, Bignoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Sapotaceae. The area surrounding the shelter was forested throughout the studied period. The local landscape was formed, as it is today, by a mosaic of vegetation types that include forest formations and open cerrado. Some regional vegetation changes may have occurred over time. Our data corroborate the practice of opportunistic firewood gathering in all periods of site occupation, despite a possible cultural preference for some taxa. The very long occupation of Santa Elina may be due not only to its attractiveness as a rock shelter but also to the continuously forested vegetation around it. It was a good place to live.

A new approach to interpreting late Pleistocene microlith industries in southwest Asia

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (259) ◽  
pp. 275-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Neeley ◽  
C. Michael Barton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
Lithic Technology ◽  
Morphological Variability ◽  
Southwest Asia ◽  
New Approach

Archaeologists have long assumed that morphological variability in microliths primarily reflects cultural differences among the makers. This forms the basis for differentiating major cultural/temporal traditions in the late Epipalaeolithic of southwest Asia. An alternative explanation for morphological variability is proposed which emphasizes the dynamic aspects of lithic technology in hunter-gatherer societies and questions current explanations of culture change.

Beringia as an Ice Age genetic museum

2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Shapiro ◽  
Alan Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Genetic Data ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Landscape Mosaics ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractThousands of Late Pleistocene remains are found in sites throughout Beringia. These specimens comprise an Ice Age genetic museum, and the DNA contained within them provide a means to observe evolutionary processes within populations over geologically significant time scales. Phylogenetic analyses can identify the taxonomic positions of extinct species and provide estimates of speciation dates. Geographic and temporal divisions apparent in the genetic data can be related to ecological change, human impacts, and possible landscape mosaics in Beringia. The application of ancient DNA techniques to traditional paleontological studies provides a new perspective to long-standing questions regarding the paleoenvironment and diversity of Late Pleistocene Beringia.

Late Pleistocene and Late Holocene Lake Highstands in the Pyramid Lake Subbasin of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, USA

2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard W. Briggs ◽  
Steven G. Wesnousky ◽  
Kenneth D. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Large Lakes ◽  
Western Basin ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Beach Ridges ◽  
Climate Proxy ◽  
Pyramid Lake ◽  
Proxy Records

AbstractShoreline geomorphology, shoreline stratigraphy, and radiocarbon dates of organic material incorporated in constructional beach ridges record large lakes during the late Pleistocene and late Holocene in the Pyramid Lake subbasin of Lake Lahontan, Nevada, USA. During the late Holocene, a transgression began at or after 3595 ± 35 14C yr B.P. and continued, perhaps in pulses, through 2635 ± 40 14C yr B.P., resulting in a lake as high as 1199 m. During the latest Pleistocene and overlapping with the earliest part of the Younger Dryas interval, a lake stood at approximately 1212 m at 10,820 ± 35 14C yr B.P. and a geomorphically and stratigraphically distinct suite of constructional shorelines associated with this lake can be traced to 1230 m. These two lake highstands correspond to periods of elevated regional wetness in the western Basin and Range that are not clearly represented in existing northern Sierra Nevada climate proxy records.

Age and paleoclimatic significance of late Holocene lakes in the Carson Sink, NV, USA

2003 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Adams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Tree Ring ◽  
Great Basin ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Lake Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Paleoclimatic Significance ◽  
Original Interpretation

AbstractNew dating in the Carson Sink at the termini of the Humboldt and Carson rivers in the Great Basin of the western United States indicates that lakes reached elevations of 1204 and 1198 m between 915 and 652 and between 1519 and 1308 cal yr B.P., respectively. These dates confirm Morrison's original interpretation (Lake Lahontan: Geology of the Southern Carson Desert, Professional Paper 40, U.S. Geol. Survey, 1964) that these shorelines are late Holocene features, rather than late Pleistocene as interpreted by later researchers. Paleohydrologic modeling suggests that discharge into the Carson Sink must have been increased by a factor of about four, and maintained for decades, to account for the 1204-m lake stand. The hydrologic effects of diversions of the Walker River to the Carson Sink were probably not sufficient, by themselves, to account for the late Holocene lake-level rises. The decadal-long period of increased runoff represented by the 1204-m lake is also reflected in other lake records and in tree ring records from the western United States.

Late Quaternary Insects of Rancho La Brea and McKittrick, California

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott E. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Dung Beetles ◽  
Kern County ◽  
Vertebrate Fauna ◽  
Modern Species ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene ◽  
Rancho La Brea

AbstractAsphalt-impregnated sediments at Rancho La Brea (Los Angeles County) and McKittrick (Kern County) in California provide a rich Quaternary insect record. Ages of various sites at Rancho La Brea range from more than 40,000 14C yr B.P. to modern. McKittrick insects studied by W. D. Pierce are not contemporaneous with the late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna, but are only about 7000 14C yr old. The major paleoecological groupings are: (1) ground dwellers, (2) aquatics. (3) scavengers, and (4) miscellaneous. Contrary to conclusions of earlier authors, most specimens represent modern species. Only two apparent terminal Pleistocene extinctions are recognized. both dung beetles (Scarabaeidae).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document