Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, Volume 18: Quaternary Research In Indonesia - Hardcover

Keates, Susan G.; Pasveer, Juliette M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9058096742 ISBN 13: 9789058096746

Publisher: CRC Press, 2004

Synopsis

Written for researchers, university lecturers and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in all fields of archaeological and anthropological study, this collection features new research from different excavation sites around Indonesia together with pioneering expert analysis. Groundbreaking new theories on early colonization feature alongside a thorough and up-to-date examination of field methods and techniques, and valuable insight into human development in Indonesia and beyond.

Focused on Java and Sulawesi, these research findings highlight important recent advances in quaternary research. Results from a cave excavation in Southern Java provide a much-needed long-term palaeoclimatic record, based on a lowland pollen sequence from Central Java, while the contributions from South Sulawesi 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.  In addition, the little-known archaeology of the tiny island of Roti is presented and discussed here, with particular attention on prehistoric survival in an impoverished island environment.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 9058096742
• ISBN 13: 9789058096746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 402