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Pottery Technology At Linaminan, Katherine Szabo, Timothy Vitales
Pottery Technology At Linaminan, Katherine Szabo, Timothy Vitales
Katherine A Szabo
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Invertebrate Remains From Linaminan, Katherine Szabo
Invertebrate Remains From Linaminan, Katherine Szabo
Katherine A Szabo
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The Archaeology Of Linaminan, Central Palawan: A Preliminary Report On Excavations, Eusebio Dizon, Katherine Szabo
The Archaeology Of Linaminan, Central Palawan: A Preliminary Report On Excavations, Eusebio Dizon, Katherine Szabo
Katherine A Szabo
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People Of The Ancient Rainforest: Late Pleistocene Foragers At The Batadomba-Lena Rockshelter, Sri Lanka, Nimal Perera, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Siran Deraniyagala, David Bulbeck, Johan Kamminga, Jude Perera, Dorian Fuller, Katherine Szabo, Nuno Oliveira
People Of The Ancient Rainforest: Late Pleistocene Foragers At The Batadomba-Lena Rockshelter, Sri Lanka, Nimal Perera, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Siran Deraniyagala, David Bulbeck, Johan Kamminga, Jude Perera, Dorian Fuller, Katherine Szabo, Nuno Oliveira
Katherine A Szabo
Batadomba-lena, a rockshelter in the rainforest of southwestern Sri Lanka, has yielded some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in South Asia. H. sapiens foragers were present at Batadomba-lena from ca. 36,000 cal BP to the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Human occupation was sporadic before the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Batadomba-lenas Late Pleistocene inhabitants foraged for a broad spectrum of plant and mainly arboreal animal resources (monkeys, squirrels and abundant rainforest snails), derived from a landscape that retained equatorial rainforest cover through periods of pronounced regional aridity during the LGM. Juxtaposed hearths, palaeofloors with habitation debris, postholes, excavated …
Engraved Prehistoric Conus Shell Valuables From Southeastern Papua New Guinea: Their Antiquity, Motifs And Distribution, Wal Ambrose, Fiona Petchey, Pamela Swadling, Harry Beran, Elizabeth Bonshek, Katherine Szabo, Simon Bickler, Glenn Summerhayes
Engraved Prehistoric Conus Shell Valuables From Southeastern Papua New Guinea: Their Antiquity, Motifs And Distribution, Wal Ambrose, Fiona Petchey, Pamela Swadling, Harry Beran, Elizabeth Bonshek, Katherine Szabo, Simon Bickler, Glenn Summerhayes
Katherine A Szabo
In the early 1900s thirteen engraved Conus shell valuables were dug from prehistoric midden mounds in Oro Province. Since the early 1970s nineteen undated surface finds have been found in the northern Massim of Milne Bay Province. When three artifacts became available for AMS radiocarbon dating, provided they were restored after sampling to their original visual appearance, a specialist team was assembled and this paper reports its findings regarding the thirty-two shells. The paper covers sampling and conservation, dating (including new information on the local oceanic reservoir effect), distribution, art, depositional and cultural histories. These distinctive Conus shell valuables are …
Analytical Examination Of Animal Remains From Borneo: The Painting Of Bone And Shell, F Pyatt, G Barker, R Rabett, Katherine Szabo, B Wilson
Analytical Examination Of Animal Remains From Borneo: The Painting Of Bone And Shell, F Pyatt, G Barker, R Rabett, Katherine Szabo, B Wilson
Katherine A Szabo
Examination of a selection of shell and bone from archaeological assemblages excavated at Niah Cave and Gua Sireh, both of which are located in Sarawak, Borneo, has revealed the deliberate application of coloured material to one or more surfaces. Small fragments of the surface colourant were analysed using a variety of techniques, including microscopy, energy dispersive microwave analysis and infra-red spectrophotometry. These procedures established that, although red in colour, the applied coating in each instance was not red iron oxide. It is suggested that, based on the chemical components present, this coating was a tree resin or a similar organic …
Foraging-Farming Transitions At The Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo, Graeme Barker, Llindsay Lloyd-Smith, Huw Barton, Franca Cole, Chris Hunt, Philip Piper, Ryan Rabett, Victor Paz, Katherine Szabo
Foraging-Farming Transitions At The Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo, Graeme Barker, Llindsay Lloyd-Smith, Huw Barton, Franca Cole, Chris Hunt, Philip Piper, Ryan Rabett, Victor Paz, Katherine Szabo
Katherine A Szabo
The Niah Caves in Sarawak, Borneo, have captured evidence for people and economies of 8000 and 4000 years ago. Although not continuous on this site, these open two windows on to life at the cultural turning point, broadly equivalent to the transition fromMesolithic to Neolithic. They have much in common, inferring that the occupants, perhaps belonging to an older maritime dispersal, had a choosy appetite for the Neolithic package.
The Fish Bone Remains, Geoffrey Clark, Katherine Szabo
The Fish Bone Remains, Geoffrey Clark, Katherine Szabo
Katherine A Szabo
Fisheries are a fundamental part of Remote Oceanic economies and lifeways, used for different types of fishing, invertebrate capture and collection, and the gathering of marine plants. Where no bones or calcareous parts remain, these activities are invisible to archaeologists, but modern studies of marine exploitation in Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific (e.g. Rawlinson et al. 1994; Dalzell et al. 1996) indicate that a good portion of activities should leave traces in the archaeological record. As with marine mollusca, tropical Indo-Pacific fish species diversity is high. However unlike the mollusca, our inability to identifY remains beyond the family level …
Inland Shell Midden Site-Formation: Investigation Into A Late Pleistocene To Early Holocene Midden From Tràng An, Northern Vietnam, Ryan Rabett, Joanna Appleby, Alison Blyth, Lucy Farr, Athanasia Gallou, Thomas Griffiths, Jason Hawkes, David Marcus, Lisa Marlow, Mike Morley, Nguyen Cao Tan, Nguyen Van Son, Kirsty Penkman, Tim Reynolds, Christopher Stimpson, Katherine Szabo
Inland Shell Midden Site-Formation: Investigation Into A Late Pleistocene To Early Holocene Midden From Tràng An, Northern Vietnam, Ryan Rabett, Joanna Appleby, Alison Blyth, Lucy Farr, Athanasia Gallou, Thomas Griffiths, Jason Hawkes, David Marcus, Lisa Marlow, Mike Morley, Nguyen Cao Tan, Nguyen Van Son, Kirsty Penkman, Tim Reynolds, Christopher Stimpson, Katherine Szabo
Katherine A Szabo
Over the course of the past two decades there has been growing research interest in the site formation processes of shell middens. This stands along-side and is being used to inform cultural, dietary and palaeo-environmental reconstructions. Just as midden site formation processes have turned out to be many and varied, however, the kinds of shell-bearing sites that past human communities created are likely to have been no less diverse. Subsuming such sites under a single category – shell middens – normalises that variation and may lead to the misinterpretation of site function. The greater part of research in this field …
Molluscs In A World Of Islands: The Use Of Shellfish As A Food Resource In The Tropical Island Asia-Pacific Region, Katherine Szabo, Judith Amesbury
Molluscs In A World Of Islands: The Use Of Shellfish As A Food Resource In The Tropical Island Asia-Pacific Region, Katherine Szabo, Judith Amesbury
Katherine A Szabo
The vast Asia-Pacific region, spanning from the islands of Indonesia and Borneo in the west through Melanesia, Micronesia, andWest Polynesia in the east, is a panorama of water and islands. Encompassing the “coral triangle”, this region is the most speciose of the global marine biogeographic provinces with a mosaic of high-biomass habitats such as mangrove swamps and coral reefs as well as rocky shores, seagrass meadows and beaches. The importance of molluscs across this region, as a consistent source of food as well as providing raw materials for artefacts, can hardly be overestimated. The western parts of this region have …