Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea
| Autor: | Rainer Grün, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Muhammad Ramli, Linda Siagian, Hasrianti, Jian-xin Zhao, Michelle C. Langley, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Jillian Huntley, Adam Brumm, Richard G. Roberts, E. Wahyu Saptomo, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Budianto Hakim, Ratno Sardi, Bo Li, Hasliana, Yinika Perston, Andi Pampang Mubarak, Basran Burhan, Iwan Sumantri, Shinatria Adhityatama, Abdullah, Mark W. Moore, Maxime Aubert, Andi Jusdi, Suryatman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Symbolism
010506 paleontology Pleistocene Human Migration Social Sciences 01 natural sciences Cave Humans Portable art Assemblage (archaeology) Human Activities 0601 history and archaeology Social Behavior Symbolic behavior History Ancient 0105 earth and related environmental sciences geography Multidisciplinary geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology Fossils 06 humanities and the arts Archaeology Indonesia Period (geology) Biological dispersal Rock art Art |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114:4105-4110 |
| ISSN: | 1091-6490 0027-8424 |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1619013114 |
| Popis: | Wallacea, the zone of oceanic islands separating the continental regions of Southeast Asia and Australia, has yielded sparse evidence for the symbolic culture of early modern humans. Here we report evidence for symbolic activity 30,000-22,000 y ago at Leang Bulu Bettue, a cave and rock-shelter site on the Wallacean island of Sulawesi. We describe hitherto undocumented practices of personal ornamentation and portable art, alongside evidence for pigment processing and use in deposits that are the same age as dated rock art in the surrounding karst region. Previously, assemblages of multiple and diverse types of Pleistocene "symbolic" artifacts were entirely unknown from this region. The Leang Bulu Bettue assemblage provides insight into the complexity and diversification of modern human culture during a key period in the global dispersal of our species. It also shows that early inhabitants of Sulawesi fashioned ornaments from body parts of endemic animals, suggesting modern humans integrated exotic faunas and other novel resources into their symbolic world as they colonized the biogeographically unique regions southeast of continental Eurasia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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