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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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Terra Australis ; 50 |
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Terra Australis ; 50.
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The Indonesian-Australian Archaeological Research Project in the Northern Moluccas / Peter Bellwood -- Investigations on Gebe Island / Peter Bellwood, Geoffrey Irwin, Daud Tanudirjo, Gunadi Nitihaminoto, Joko Siswanto, Doreen Bowdery -- Investigations on Morotai Island / Peter Bellwood, Daud Tanudirjo, Gunadi Nitihaminoto -- The excavation of Gua Siti Nafisah, Kecamatan Weda, south-central Halmahera / Peter Bellwood, Gunadi Nitihaminoto, Gunadi Kusnowihardjo, Agus Waluyo -- Excavations in the Uattamdi rockshelters, Kayoa Island / Peter Bellwood, Rachel Wood, Geoffrey Irwin, Agus Waluyo -- Other explored but unexcavated sites / Peter Bellwood -- The earthenware pottery from the North Moluccan excavations / Peter Bellwood -- Lithic and other non-ceramic artefacts / Peter Bellwood, Geoffrey Irwin -- Worked shell from the Northern Moluccas / Katherine Szabó -- Observations on the Northern Moluccan excavated animal bone and shell collections / Jennifer R. Hull, Philip Piper, Geoffrey Irwin, Katherine Szabó, Annette Oertle, Peter Bellwood -- Bioarchaeological analysis of the Northern Moluccan excavated human remains / David Bulbeck -- Skeletal markers of health and disease in the Northern Moluccas / Bronwyn Wyatt, Justyna J. Miszkiewicz -- The Northern Spice Islands in prehistory, from 40,000 years ago to the recent past / Peter Bellwood. |
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"This monograph reports the results of archaeological investigations undertaken in the Northern Moluccas Islands (the Indonesian Province of Maluku Utara) by Indonesian, New Zealand and Australian archaeologists between 1989 and 1996. Excavations were undertaken in caves and open sites on four islands (Halmahera, Morotai, Kayoa and Gebe). The cultural sequence spans the past 35,000 years, commencing with shell and stone artefacts, progressing through the arrival of a Neolithic assemblage with red-slipped pottery, domesticated pigs and ground stone adzes around 1300 BC, and culminating in the appearance of Metal Age assemblages around 2000 years ago. The Metal Age also appears to have been a period of initial pottery use in Morotai Island, suggesting interaction between Austronesian-speaking and Papuan-speaking communities, whose descendants still populate these islands today.The 13 chapters in the volume have multiple authors, and include site excavation reports, discussions of radiocarbon chronology, earthenware pottery, lithic and non-ceramic artefacts, worked shell, animal bones, human osteology and health." |
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Print version record. |
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Archaeology and history -- Indonesia -- Maluku.
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Maluku (Indonesia) -- Antiquities.
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Archéologie et histoire -- Indonésie -- Moluques.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology and history
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Indonesia -- Maluku
https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhxjv9wKXtjHGvGxh8DMP
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History
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Bellwood, Peter, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bellwood, Peter. Spice Islands in Prehistory : Archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. Canberra : ANU Press, ©2019 9781760462901 |
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9781760462918 (electronic bk.) |
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1760462918 (electronic bk.) |
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9781760462901 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000065521467 |
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