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dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Sue
dc.contributor.authorMahirta
dc.contributor.authorCarro, Sofia C Samper
dc.contributor.authorHawkins, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorKealy, Shimona
dc.contributor.authorLouys, Julien
dc.contributor.authorWood, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-17T03:49:40Z
dc.date.available2019-09-17T03:49:40Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0003-598X
dc.identifier.doi10.15184/aqy.2017.186
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/387421
dc.description.abstractFish-hooks discovered among grave goods associated with an adult female burial at the Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the island of Alor in Indonesia are the first of their kind from a Pleistocene mortuary context in Southeast Asia. Many of the hooks are of a circular rotating design. Parallels found in various other prehistoric contexts around the globe indicate widespread cultural convergence. The association of the fish-hooks with a human burial, combined with the lack of alternative protein sources on the island, suggest that fishing was an important part of the cosmology of this community. The Tron Bon Lei burial represents the earliest-known example of a culture for whom fishing was clearly an important activity among both the living and the dead.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1451
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1468
dc.relation.ispartofissue360
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAntiquity
dc.relation.ispartofvolume91
dc.subject.fieldofresearchArchaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4301
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciences
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsAnthropology
dc.titleFishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationO'Connor, S; Mahirta; Carro, SCS; Hawkins, S; Kealy, S; Louys, J; Wood, R, Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia, Antiquity, 2017, 91 (360), pp. 1451-1468
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2019-09-17T03:46:34Z
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gro.griffith.authorLouys, Julien


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