dc.contributor.author | Langley, Michelle C | |
dc.contributor.author | O'Connor, Sue | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-19T06:20:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-19T06:20:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0161071 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/172757 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 west. In Timor-Leste, the
lowest Oliva bead to be recovered was directly dated to ca. 37,000 cal. BP, making it the oldest
piece of personal ornamentation in Southeast Asia. Morphometric, taphonomic, use
wear, and residue analyses of these beads alongside modern reference specimens, and
experimentally made examples indicate that the Oliva shells were modified to be strung consecutively
(as in a necklace), and while their mode of production changed remarkably little
over the thousands of years they were utilised, an increase in their deposition around 6,000
cal. BP suggests that there was a change in their use coinciding with sea-level stabilisation.
These tiny beads demonstrate that early Island Southeast Asian societies produced the
same kinds of symbolic material culture we have come to expect from the more intensively
studied African/Eurasian region, and that limited sampling and poor recovery methods have
biased our perspectives of this region. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Sciences | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | e0161071-1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | e0161071-25 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 8 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | PLoS One | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 11 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Archaeological science | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 430101 | |
dc.title | 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 | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Version of Record (VoR) | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2016 Langley, O‘Connor. This is an
open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any
medium, provided the original author and source are
credited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Langley, Michelle C. | |