An Enduring Shell Artefact Tradition from Timor-Leste: Oliva Bead Production from the Pleistocene to Late Holocene at Jerimalai, Lene Hara, and Matja Kuru 1 and 2
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Langley, Michelle C; O'Connor, Sue
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In this paper, we describe 485 Oliva spp. shell beads recovered from four archaeological cave sites Jerimalai, Lene Hara, Matja Kuru 1, and Matja Kuru 2, located in Timor-Leste, Island Southeast Asia. While Pleistocene-aged examples of modified marine shells used for personal ornamentation are common in African and Eurasian assemblages, they are exceedingly rare in Southeast Asia, leading some researchers to suggest that these Modern Human societies were less complex than those found further...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2016-08-18 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147600 |
Source: | PloS one |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0161071 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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