Excavations in Timor : a study of economic change and cultural continuity in prehistory
Abstract
In 1966 and 1967 the author spent ten months locating and excavating archaeological deposits in the
eastern part of Timor, the largest of the Lesser Sunda Islands. The principal aim of the
excavations was to recover sequences of stone and pottery artifacts and bone food remains from
the main environmental zones, in order to date the principal technical and economic changes in the
eastern end of the island, and to provide a chronological framework to which surface finds and
undated excavated material could be related.