The Spice Islands in prehistory : archaeology in the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia / edited by Peter Bellwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellwood, Peter, Editor.

Contributor:

Bellwood, Peter S., editor.

Australian National University Press.

Series:

Terra Australis ; 50.

Terra Australis ; 50

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history--Indonesia--Malaku.

Archaeology and history.

Maluku (Indonesia)--Antiquities.

Maluku (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2019

Acton, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."

Contents:

1. The Indonesian-Australian Archaeological Research Project in the Northern Moluccas / Peter Bellwood

2. Investigations on Gebe Island / Peter Bellwood, Geoffrey Irwin, Daud Tanudirjo, Gunadi Nitihaminoto, Joko Siswanto, and Doreen Bowdery

3. Investigations on Morotai Island / Peter Bellwood, Daud Tanudirjo, and Gunadi Nitihaminoto

4. The excavation of Gua Siti Nafisah, Kecamatan Weda, south-central Halmahera / Peter Bellwood, Gunadi Nitihaminoto, Gunadi Kusnowihardjo, and Agus Waluyo

5. Excavations in the Uattamdi rockshelters, Kayoa Island / Peter Bellwood, Rachel Wood, Geoffrey Irwin, and Agus Waluyo

6. Other explored but unexcavated sites / Peter Bellwood

7. The earthenware pottery from the North Moluccan excavations / Peter Bellwood

8. Lithic and other non-ceramic artefacts / Peter Bellwood and Geoffrey Irwin

9. Worked shell from the Northern Moluccas / Katherine Szabó

10. Observations on the Northern Moluccan excavated animal bone and shell collections / Jennifer R. Hull, Philip Piper, Geoffrey Irwin, Katherine Szabó, Annette Oertle, and Peter Bellwood

11. Bioarchaeological analysis of the Northern Moluccan excavated human remains / David Bulbeck

12. Skeletal markers of health and disease in the Northern Moluccas / Bronwyn Wyatt and Justyna J. Miszkiewicz

13. The Northern Spice Islands in prehistory, from 40,000 years ago to the recent past / Peter Bellwood.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed July 10, 2020).

ISBN:

9781760462918

1760462918

Publisher Number:

10.22459/TA50.2019