Re-assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia

IF 1.1 3区 历史学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Archaeology in Oceania Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI:10.1002/arco.5301
Chris Urwin, John J. Bradley, Ian J. McNiven, Lynette Russell, Lily Yulianti Farid
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According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia. Yet archaeological radiocarbon chronologies for the Southeast Asian trepang industry and earlier voyaging encounters are few and the dates have never been comprehensively reviewed. Only one Arnhem Land trepang fishery site has been dated extensively, and others have produced unusually old dates of c.1200–1500 CE. The Groote Eylandt rockshelter of Dadirrigka yielded an enigmatic sherd of friable earthenware above a radiocarbon date of c.1100 CE. Here we have compiled, reviewed and recalibrated all 49 radiocarbon dates directly associated with Southeast Asian contact sites, stratigraphy and rock art in northern Australia. We discuss the dates and their archaeological contexts region by region to assess their reliability. We also report for the first time Yanyuwa (southwest Gulf of Carpentaria) oral traditions which shed light on their past kinship and exchange relationships with Makassan visitors. The radiocarbon dates provide tentative support for four phases of interaction in northwest Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt, including pre-Makassan encounters and the organised trepang industry of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. There is a paucity of archaeological excavations and radiocarbon data from northeast Arnhem Land, the Kimberley and the southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, where historical writings, linguistics and oral traditions are still the most reliable indicators of the timing and nature of cross-cultural interaction.

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重新评估东南亚岛屿航行到澳大利亚原住民的区域年表
根据有文字记载的历史,从公元1750年到1907年,来自东南亚岛屿(“望加桑人”)的海参渔民经常光顾澳大利亚北部沿海地区。Yolŋu口头传统和古南岛人从沿海土著语言中借用的词汇表明,外国到澳大利亚北部航行的历史漫长而复杂。然而,东南亚海参工业和早期航海遭遇的考古放射性碳年表很少,而且这些日期从未得到全面审查。只有阿纳姆地的一个海参渔场被广泛地确定了年代,而其他一些渔场的年代则异常古老,大约在公元1200 - 1500年。在Dadirrigka的grote Eylandt岩洞中发现了一块神秘的易碎陶器碎片,其放射性碳年代为1100年CE。在这里,我们汇编、审查并重新校准了与东南亚接触点、地层学和澳大利亚北部岩石艺术直接相关的所有49个放射性碳年代。我们逐个地区讨论日期及其考古背景,以评估其可靠性。我们还首次报道了Yanyuwa(卡本塔利亚湾西南部)的口头传统,这些口头传统揭示了他们过去与望加山游客的亲缘关系和交流关系。放射性碳年代为阿纳姆地西北部和格鲁特埃兰特的四个相互作用阶段提供了初步的支持,包括前马加桑相遇和18世纪和19世纪有组织的海参工业。阿纳姆地东北部、金伯利和卡彭塔利亚湾西南部的考古发掘和放射性碳数据很少,在这些地方,历史著作、语言学和口头传统仍然是跨文化互动时间和性质的最可靠指标。
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期刊介绍: Archaeology in Oceania is published online and in print versions three times a year: April, July, October. It accepts articles and research reports in prehistoric and historical archaeology, modern material culture and human biology of ancient and modern human populations. Its primary geographic focus is Australia, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and lands of the western Pacific rim. All articles and research reports accepted as being within the remit of the journal and of appropriate standard will be reviewed by two scholars; authors will be informed of these comments though not necessarily of the reviewer’s names.
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