Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands

R Rozzi, MV Lomolino, AAE van der Geer, D Silvestro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Inland fishing by Homo sapiens during early settlement of Wallacea

C Boulanger, S Hawkins, C Shipton… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Homo sapiens were adept at fishing in a range of aquatic habitats by the time they left Africa
and reached Southeast Asia ca. 73 kya. In the insular region of Wallacea, humans adapted …

[HTML][HTML] Skeletal remains of a Pleistocene modern human (Homo sapiens) from Sulawesi

A Brumm, D Bulbeck, B Hakim, B Burhan… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Major gaps remain in our knowledge of the early history of Homo sapiens in Wallacea. By 70–
60 thousand years ago (ka), modern humans appear to have entered this distinct …

Development of bone and lithic technologies by anatomically modern humans during the late Pleistocene to Holocene in Sulawesi and Wallacea

R Ono, R Fuentes, N Amano, HO Sofian, N Aziz… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The site of Goa Topogaro (Topogaro Caves) on Sulawesi Island in Eastern
Indonesia yields numerous osseous and lithic artefacts in association with anatomically …

A review of archaeological dating efforts at cave and rockshelter sites in the Indonesian Archipelago

HAF Kaharudin, A Alifah… - Journal of Indo …, 2020 - journals.lib.washington.edu
In the last 35 years Indonesia has seen a substantial increase in the number of dated, cave
and rockshelter sites, from 10 to 99. Here we review the published records of cave and …

[PDF][PDF] Holocene site occupancy in Sulawesi

D Bulbeck - The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on …, 2018 - library.oapen.org
This contribution presents an analysis of the number of Sulawesi sites (summed probability)
occupied per 500-year interval between 10,000 and 0 BP, based on radiometric dates. The …

Flaking stone activity in the tradition of iron smelting from the 8th to 17th centuries AD in the Matano region, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

RR Triwurjani, S Adhityatama, D Bulbeck… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lake Matano includes a complex of sites related to an iron-smelting industry that developed
at the northeast tip of South Sulawesi between the 8th and 17th centuries AD. The sites …

Detecting microscopic aspects of late Pleistocene to early/mid Holocene lithic technology in Island Southeast Asia: Perspectives from north and central Sulawesi

R Fuentes - 2020 - tobias-lib.ub.uni-tuebingen.de
Late Pleistocene lithic assemblages from North (Leang Sarru) and Central Sulawesi
(Topogaro) were subjected to multi-stage use-wear analysis. This study provides new …

Patterned and plain baked clay from pre-pottery contexts in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia

D Bulbeck, S O'Connor, JN Fenner, B Marwick, F Aziz… - antiquity, 2019 - cambridge.org
Excavations of pre-pottery levels at Gua Talimbue and Gua Sambagowala in Southeast
Sulawesi, Indonesia, have yielded nearly 4kg of baked-clay fragments, half of which exhibit …

Early Metal Age Pottery from Fatu Aki Anik Knua, Timor-Leste and the Appearance of Ceramics in the Wallacean Islands.

P Beaumont, S O'Connor… - Journal of Indo …, 2020 - journals.lib.washington.edu
Abstract Fatu Aki Anik Knua is an archaeological site in the mountainous interior of Timor-
Leste comprising of a limestone cave and open site locale. Excavations in 2015 yielded an …