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  • A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

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    Brumm, Adam
    Hakim, Budianto
    Ramli, Muhammad
    Aubert, Maxime
    van den Bergh, Gerrit D
    Li, Bo
    Burhan, Basran
    Saifui, Andi Muhammad
    Siagian, Linda
    Sardi, Ratno
    Jusdi, Andi
    Abdullah
    Mubarak, Andi Pampang
    Moore, Mark W
    Roberts, Richard G
    Zhao, Jian-Xin
    McGahan, David
    Jones, Brian G
    Perston, Yinika
    Szabo, Katherine
    Mahmud, M Irfan
    Westaway, Kira
    Jatmiko
    Saptomo, E Wahyu
    van der Kaars, Sander
    Gruen, Rainer
    Wood, Rachel
    Dodson, John
    Morwood, Michael J
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Aubert, Maxime
    Brumm, Adam R.
    Grun, Rainer
    Perston, Yinika
    McGahan, David P.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    This paper presents a reassessment of the archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a key early human occupation site in the Late Pleistocene of Southeast Asia. Excavated originally by Ian Glover in 1975, this limestone rock-shelter in the Maros karsts of Sulawesi, Indonesia, has long held significance in our understanding of early human dispersals into ‘Wallacea’, the vast zone of oceanic islands between continental Asia and Australia. We present new stratigraphic information and dating evidence from Leang Burung 2 collected during the course of our excavations at this site in 2007 and 2011–13. Our findings suggest that the ...
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    This paper presents a reassessment of the archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a key early human occupation site in the Late Pleistocene of Southeast Asia. Excavated originally by Ian Glover in 1975, this limestone rock-shelter in the Maros karsts of Sulawesi, Indonesia, has long held significance in our understanding of early human dispersals into ‘Wallacea’, the vast zone of oceanic islands between continental Asia and Australia. We present new stratigraphic information and dating evidence from Leang Burung 2 collected during the course of our excavations at this site in 2007 and 2011–13. Our findings suggest that the classic Late Pleistocene modern human occupation sequence identified previously at Leang Burung 2, and proposed to span around 31,000 to 19,000 conventional 14C years BP (~35–24 ka cal BP), may actually represent an amalgam of reworked archaeological materials. Sources for cultural materials of mixed ages comprise breccias from the rear wall of the rock-shelter–remnants of older, eroded deposits dated to 35–23 ka cal BP–and cultural remains of early Holocene antiquity. Below the upper levels affected by the mass loss of Late Pleistocene deposits, our deep-trench excavations uncovered evidence for an earlier hominin presence at the site. These findings include fossils of now-extinct proboscideans and other ‘megafauna’ in stratified context, as well as a cobble-based stone artifact technology comparable to that produced by late Middle Pleistocene hominins elsewhere on Sulawesi.
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    Journal Title
    PLOS ONE
    Volume
    13
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193025
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 Brumm et al. 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.
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    Multidisciplinary
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383142
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