Quaternary research in Indonesia
"Quaternary Research in Indonesia presents a comprehensive understanding of human cultural developments in Indonesia. It features new research results on Quaternary and Holocene geomorphology, chronology, palynology, archaeobotany, faunal studies, human palaeobiology, and lithic and bone artifacts from cave and open air sites. The geographic emphasis is on Java and Sulawesi. In addition, contributions on the Lesser Sundas and the northern Moluccas are included as well as reviews of cave and rockshelter sites of Island Southeast Asian Late Pleistocene prehistory. Sites and archaeological materials are examined in a multidisciplinary framework using state-of-the art methods and techniques. Important research results on Java include the latest analyses of a cave excavation in southern Java, where human occupation now extends back to the Middle Pleistocene, and a much-needed long-term palaeoclimatic record based on a lowland pollen sequence from Central Java. The contributions on Sulawesi are focused on South Sulawesi. They include a pioneering archaeobotanical analysis, a new hypothesis on the earliest human colonisation of this island, and an attempt to reconstruct preceramic human biological population affinities."--pub. desc
Print Book, English, ©2004
A.A. Balkema, Leiden, ©2004