A5040311182- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Australian Indigenous Culture and History
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Asian Studies and History
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
Australian National University
2016-2025
Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
2018-2025
Australian Research Council
2019-2024
Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Kesehatan
2024
The University of Queensland
2003-2023
James Cook University
2018-2023
Universitas Gadjah Mada
2018-2023
New York University
2023
Greenslopes Private Hospital
1995-2023
Princess Alexandra Hospital
2023
Abundant fish remains from a shelter in East Timor imply that humans were fishing the deep sea by 43,000 years ago.
New dates by which modern humans reached East Timor prompts this very useful update of the colonisation Island Southeast Asia. The author addresses all difficult questions: why are for in Australia earlier than they Asia? Which route did use to get there? If used southern route, or how manage bypass Flores, where Homo floresiensis , famous non- sapiens hominin known world as ‘hobbit’ was already residence? work at rock shelter Jerimalai suggests some answers and new research directions.
Archaeological records from Australia provide the earliest, indirect evidence for maritime crossings by early modern humans, as islands to north-west of continent (Wallacea) have never been connected mainland. Suggested in 1977 Joseph B. Birdsell, two main routes Sunda (mainland Southeast Asia) Sahul (Australia-New Guinea), still debate today, are a northern route through Sulawesi with landing New Guinea, or southern Bali, Timor and thence Australia. Here we construct least-cost pathway...
The Wallacea Archipelago provides an extraordinary laboratory for the study of human colonisation and adaptation, yet few detailed archaeological studies have been conducted in region that span earliest phase settlement. Laili Cave, northern Timor-Leste, preserves oldest occupation this insular with a cultural sequence spanning 11,200 to 44,600 cal BP. Small-bodied vertebrates invertebrates were recovered lowest excavated levels, associated highly concentrated stone artefacts. We report on...
The first peopling of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands joined at lower sea levels) by anatomically modern humans required multiple maritime crossings through Wallacea, with least one approaching 100 km. Whether these were accidental or intentional is unknown. Using coastal-viewshed analysis ocean drift modelling combined population projections, we show that probability randomly reaching any route <5% until ≥40 adults are 'washed off' an island once every 20 years. We then...
Significance We provide global assessment of the possible link between Pleistocene hominin arrival and island extinction. The existing records on islands around world do not support a significant detrimental impact biotas following colonization prior to Holocene. This suggests that models using extinctions as evidence in anthropogenic megafaunal overhunting, or extensions continental-level extinctions, need be reconsidered.
The rock art of Southeast Asia has been less thoroughly studied than that Europe or Australia, and it generally considered to be more recent in origin. New dating evidence from Mainland Island Asia, however, demonstrates the earliest motifs (hand stencils naturalistic animals) are late Pleistocene age as early those Europe. similar form painted Europe, Africa suggests they product a shared underlying behaviour, but difference context (rockshelters) indicates experiences deep caves cannot...
An extensive series of 44 radiocarbon (14C) and 37 optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages have been obtained from the site Riwi, south central Kimberley (NW Australia). As one earliest known Pleistocene sites in Australia, with archaeologically sterile sediment beneath deposits containing occupation, chronology is important renewed debates surrounding colonization Sahul. Charcoal preserved throughout sequence within multiple discrete hearth features. Prior to 14C dating, charcoal has...
ABSTRACT The palaeogeography of the Wallacea Archipelago is a significant factor in understanding early modern human colonization Sahul (Australia and New Guinea), models patterns, as well archaeological survey site interpretation, are all heavily dependent on specific palaeogeographic reconstruction employed. Here we present five reconstructions for periods 65, 60, 55, 50, 45 000 years ago, using latest bathometric chart sea‐level model that adjusted to account average uplift rate known...
We report evidence for the world's earliest ground-edge axe, 44–49,000 years old. Its antiquity coincides with or immediately follows arrival of humans on Australian landmass. Ground/polished axes are not associated eastward dispersal Homo sapiens across Eurasia and discovery in Australia at point colonisation exemplifies a diversification technological practices that occurred as modern dispersed from Africa. Ground-edge now known two different colonised lands time arrived hence we argue...
Abstract The resource-poor, isolated islands of Wallacea have been considered a major adaptive obstacle for hominins expanding into Australasia. Archaeological evidence has hinted that coastal adaptations in Homo sapiens enabled rapid island dispersal and settlement; however, there no means to directly test this proposition. Here, we apply stable carbon oxygen isotope analysis human faunal tooth enamel from six Late Pleistocene Holocene archaeological sites across Wallacea. results...
The occupation of small islands presents particular challenges for people largely related to limited terrestrial resources and susceptibility natural disasters. Nevertheless, the risks inherent in maintaining stable populations on can be offset or overcome through use maritime technologies exchange networks. archaeology Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) Kisar Island Wallacean Archipelago provides an unparalleled record examining these issues Southeast Asia. is smallest known have a...
Abstract The peopling of Sahul (the combined continent Australia and New Guinea) represents the earliest continental migration settlement event solely anatomically modern humans, but its patterns ecological drivers remain largely conceptual in current literature. We present an advanced stochastic-ecological model to test relative support for scenarios describing where when first humans entered Sahul, their most probable routes early settlement. supports a dominant entry via northwest Shelf...
"Carpenter's Gap Rockshelter 1: 40,000 years of Aboriginal occupation in the Napier Ranges, Kimberley, WA." Australian Archaeology, 40(1), pp. 58–59
Mapping the spread of Austronesian languages and its associated Neolithic culture forms backbone orthodox model Island Southeast Asian Neolithic. The linguistic thrust narratives has tended to reduce importance independence archaeological record. In this paper we investigate how evidence been used support interpretations. Our own fieldwork analysis suggest that reliance on 'tree' monolithic cultural categories may mask considerable complexity diversity in Keywords:...
The origin and timing of the introduction pigs pottery into New Guinea are contentious topics. Arguments have centred on whether domestic technology entered following ‘Austronesian expansion’ from Southeast Asia Island Melanesia, c. 3,300 calBP, or in early to mid-Holocene. We review history debate present new dates pig bone contexts archaeological sites, including Taora Lachitu, north coast mainland Papua (PNG), where earlier data supported claims for pottery. argue that theoretical...