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dc.contributor.authorBrumm, Adam
dc.contributor.authorLangley, Michelle C
dc.contributor.authorMoore, Mark W
dc.contributor.authorHakim, Budianto
dc.contributor.authorRamli, Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorSumantri, Iwan
dc.contributor.authorBurhan, Basran
dc.contributor.authorSaiful, Andi Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorSiagian, Linda
dc.contributor.authorSuryatman
dc.contributor.authorSardi, Ratno
dc.contributor.authorJusdi, Andi
dc.contributor.authorAbdullah
dc.contributor.authorMubarak, Andi Pampang
dc.contributor.authorHasliana
dc.contributor.authorHasrianti
dc.contributor.authorOktaviana, Adhi Agus
dc.contributor.authorAdhityatama, Shinatria
dc.contributor.authorvan den Bergh, Gerrit D
dc.contributor.authorAubert, Maxime
dc.contributor.authorZhao, Jian-xin
dc.contributor.authorHuntley, Jillian
dc.contributor.authorLi, Bo
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Richard G
dc.contributor.authorSaptomo, E Wahyu
dc.contributor.authorPerston, Yinika
dc.contributor.authorGrun, Rainer
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-02T00:24:36Z
dc.date.available2019-04-02T00:24:36Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424
dc.identifier.doi10.1073/pnas.1619013114
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/339666
dc.description.abstractWallacea, 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciences
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom4105
dc.relation.ispartofpageto4110
dc.relation.ispartofissue16
dc.relation.ispartofjournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
dc.relation.ispartofvolume114
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAnthropology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440199
dc.titleEarly human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBrumm, Adam R.
gro.griffith.authorLangley, Michelle C.
gro.griffith.authorAubert, Maxime
gro.griffith.authorHuntley, Jillian
gro.griffith.authorPerston, Yinika


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