Pub Date : 2014-09-04DOI: 10.7152/JIPA.V33I0.14511
Nia Marniati Etie Fajari, V. Kusmartono
This report discusses research funded by the Granucci Fund in the cave of Gua Payung, located in the southern karstic zone of the Meratus Mountains, southeastern Kalimantan, Indonesia. Gua Payung was investigated for comparison with the early Holocene results from Gua Babi in the northern Meratus Mountains. It provided evidence for a younger occupation than Gua Babi, and the results are described in this report.
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Pub Date : 2014-07-25DOI: 10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.14347
E. Bacus
The project, Transformations in the Landscapes of South-Central Bali: An Archaeological Investigation of Early Balinese States, undertaken with Drs John Schoenfelder and I Wayan Ardika, was initiated to investigate, through a program of survey and excavation, changes and continuities in aspects of the political, religious and economic landscapes of south-central Bali during the mid-late first millennium AD and into the second millennium AD. This paper first presents a brief discussion of the theoretical background to the project and of the 2000 survey season, followed by a brief overview of the 2004 excavations at the Timbul site and a discussion of the dating of the several periods of occupation. Analysis of the smaller assemblage of non-earthenware artifacts, including the Chinese materials and their dating, as well as of the lithic artifacts, are next discussed. The paper then presents the morphological analyses of the earthenware pottery and also compares the resulting rim shape types and vessel shapes to those from other dated sites on Bali. The paper concludes with a discussion of the excavated Timbul deposits in the context of current archaeological knowledge of the relevant periods on Bali.
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Pub Date : 2014-07-17DOI: 10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.10643
Q. Marak
The Jaintias of Meghalaya (India) are a group of people who are even today known to erect and use megaliths in their regular and ceremonial lives. One of the oldest villages with such traditions is a village named Nangbah in Jaintia Hills District in the state of Meghalaya. The present paper is an outcome of a study done on the megalithic remains in Nangbah village and its associated cultural practices in December 2009-January 2010. Interestingly it is seen that the Jaintias still follow their beliefs and practices connected to these megaliths.
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Pub Date : 2014-07-17DOI: 10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.12844
L. Lloyd-Smith
The West Mouth of Niah Cave, Sarawak, contains one of the largest series of stratified prehistoric burials in Southeast Asia. Initial classification grouped up to 39 burials as ‘Mesolithic’ or pre-Neolithic (B. Harrisson 1967), including ‘flexed’, ‘seated’ and ‘mutilation’ burials, and subsequent radiocarbon dates on human bone produced a date range for these burials of 15,121-5659 cal. BC (Brooks et al. 1977; T. Harrisson 1975). However, due to the technical infancy in dating bone samples at that time, these dates are now generally discredited (Spriggs 1989). In light of renewed investigation of cave stratigraphy and new radiocarbon dates, this paper reviews the classification and date range of early Holocene burials at Niah Cave. The spatial and temporal patterning in burial practice at the site is discussed and compared to the regional data. It is proposed that the commencement of discrete burial in the early Holocene forms a horizon across the Indo-Malay Archipelago which reflects a broad cultural shift in the perception of dead and cultural attitudes to their appropriate treatment, one result of which was the creation of tangible ancestral identities. Early Holocene burial practice was varied both at a local and regional level, including primary as well as secondary burial. One widespread element is the use of fire, either represented as fully cremated remains or physically present within the grave structure itself.
沙捞越Niah洞的西口包含东南亚最大的史前分层墓葬之一。最初将39个墓葬分类为“中石器时代”或前新石器时代(B. Harrisson 1967)，包括“弯曲”、“坐姿”和“肢解”墓葬，随后对人骨进行放射性碳年代测定，得出这些墓葬的年代范围为公元前15121 -5659年(Brooks et al. 1977;T. harrison 1975)。然而，由于当时测定骨骼样本年代的技术尚不成熟，这些日期现在普遍不可信(Spriggs 1989)。根据新的洞穴地层学研究和新的放射性碳测年，对尼亚洞早全新世墓葬的分类和年代范围进行了综述。讨论了该遗址埋葬实践的时空格局，并与区域数据进行了比较。有人提出，全新世早期离散埋葬的开始形成了一个跨越印度-马来群岛的地平线，这反映了对死者的看法和对其适当处理的文化态度的广泛文化转变，其中一个结果是有形祖先身份的创造。全新世早期的埋葬实践在地方和区域层面上都是多种多样的，包括初级埋葬和次级埋葬。一个普遍的元素是火的使用，要么表现为完全火化的遗骸，要么表现为坟墓结构本身的物理存在。
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Pub Date : 2014-07-17DOI: 10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.13772
Brigitte Borell
Abstract. During the last decades, a total of sixteen glass vessels of previously unknown type, mainly small cups and a few shallow bowls came to light in Han period tombs in Guangxi, China. Made of a potash glass, these glass vessels were probably manufactured somewhere in the region of southern China or northern Southeast Asia. The shallow glass bowl found in Lao Cao, in the upper Red River valley, northern Vietnam, is clearly related to this group. The date from the first century BCE to the first century CE, suggested for the Lao Cai find context, correlates with the dates of the Guangxi tombs in which glass vessels were found.
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Pub Date : 2014-07-17DOI: 10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.13843
Henrik Lekenvall
The paper presents the results from archaeological surveys carried out in Songkhla and Phattalung Provinces, Thai-Malay Peninsula. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate the potential of selected areas for further study, and to contribute to the understanding of the Late Stone Age and early agricultural development in the area. Specific emphasis is put on evaluating the archaeological survey methodology employed during the survey, which was based on community involvement. The results from the survey are presented and discussed in terms of the prevailing discourse on agricultural development during the Late Stone Age. A review of the archaeology of the Thai-Malay Peninsula is given as a background. On the basis of more recent environmental and archaeological data, it is argued that the conventional model on agricultural development in the region needs to be reevaluated. Further, indigenous communities are suggested to have played a more significant role in the regional agricultural development than previously thought.
{"title":"LATE STONE AGE COMMUNITIES IN THE THAI-MALAY PENINSULA","authors":"Henrik Lekenvall","doi":"10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.13843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7152/JIPA.V32I0.13843","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the results from archaeological surveys carried out in Songkhla and Phattalung Provinces, Thai-Malay Peninsula. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate the potential of selected areas for further study, and to contribute to the understanding of the Late Stone Age and early agricultural development in the area. Specific emphasis is put on evaluating the archaeological survey methodology employed during the survey, which was based on community involvement. The results from the survey are presented and discussed in terms of the prevailing discourse on agricultural development during the Late Stone Age. A review of the archaeology of the Thai-Malay Peninsula is given as a background. On the basis of more recent environmental and archaeological data, it is argued that the conventional model on agricultural development in the region needs to be reevaluated. Further, indigenous communities are suggested to have played a more significant role in the regional agricultural development than previously thought.","PeriodicalId":158063,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125942519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-02-01DOI: 10.7152/BIPPA.V32I0.12931
R. Fullagar, Li Liu, Sheahan Bestel, Duncan Jones, Wei Ge, Anthony Wilson, Shaodong Zhai
Within a broader study of early Chinese agriculture, stone tool-use experiments were undertaken to document usewear on sandstone and tuff implements used to process Quercus acorns, Avena oats and Setaria millet. In other experiments, we examined usewear on denticulate slate sickles used to harvest Quercus acorns, Poaceae grass and Typha reeds. Results support other studies that indicate different patterns of abrasive smoothing, striation formation and polish development together provide a basis for distinguishing some of these tasks. This research is aimed to establish a database for functional analysis of grinding stones and sickles from the early Neolithic Peiligang culture. Controlled experiments are required to identify critical variables (e.g. silica in husks) that affect usewear patterns.
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Pub Date : 2013-12-09DOI: 10.7152/BIPPA.V32I0.12988
B. Hudson, N. Lwin
A radiocarbon date range of 2,890 to 2,470 BC for an earthenware firing site at Halin in Upper Myanmar (Burma) puts a solid timeframe around an assemblage that includes incised and burnished wares, and a spout. While earthenware is often found associated with burials in this region (Pautreau 2007 ; Pautreau, Coupey et al. 2010), this site provides a rare glimpse of early earthenware pottery production. Initial finds call for some reappraisal of approaches to Myanmar’s material culture in the pre-metal and pre-urban periods.
上缅甸(Burma)哈林(Halin)的一个陶器烧制地点的放射性碳年代范围为公元前2890年至2470年，这为包括切割和抛光的陶器和一个喷口在内的陶器组合提供了一个可靠的时间框架。虽然陶器经常被发现与该地区的墓葬有关(Pautreau 2007;Pautreau, Coupey et al. 2010)，该遗址提供了早期陶器生产的罕见一瞥。初步发现要求对前金属和前城市时期的缅甸物质文化进行重新评估。
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Pub Date : 2013-12-08DOI: 10.7152/BIPPA.V32I0.13603
V. S. Soni, Anujot Singh Soni
ABSTRACT Most of the alluvial fan surfaces in the northwestern sub-Himalayas were laid down during terminal Pleistocene to late mid-Holocene times and so were the cusp terraces of the streams cutting through Siwaliks and the joining perennial Himalayan rivers. Though the stone tools and other prehistoric artefacts found on a surface have to be younger than the age of that surface but in the absence of any dates, almost all the earlier workers in this region determined the chronology of lithic sites by mere speculations. We have recently made surface collections from almost 30 stream-terrace sites and alluvial fan surfaces in the sub-Himalayas and have excavated two in buried state, all were in dated contexts. We have observed that the Soanian type stone implements existed in the sub-Himalayas up to late mid-Holocene times. This inference is also confirmed by the discovery of such tools from post-Urban Harappan sites and also in association with Harappan potsherds on young terrace surfaces. The discovery of many new tool-types, especially the pitted cobbles and edge-ground lithic specimens known from the mid-Holocene sites elsewhere, especially of Southeast Asia, also hints at the influence of those lithic industries in this region. We briefly present here the lithic assemblages from five sites with new evidences and conclude that the Soanian and many new tool-types were in use in the northwestern sub-Himalayas until the late mid-Holocene times.
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Pub Date : 2013-12-08DOI: 10.7152/BIPPA.V32I0.9997
Y. Kuzmin
A brief overview of recent obsidian source studies in Northeast Asia (Japan, Russian Far East, Korea, and Northeast China) is presented. Obsidian was a valuable commodity since the early Upper Palaeolithic, and the length of distances between sources and utilisation sites at that time (ca. 30,000–10,000 BP) was up to 800 km. In the Neolithic of Japan (Jomon), several large exchange networks existed, with obsidian transportation up to 1000 km from source to sites, often across wide-open waters. The use of multiple obsidian sources shows the complex nature of raw material acquisition and use in prehistory.
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