The contemporary importance and future of Sulawesi's ancient rock art
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Ramli, Muhammad
Hakim, Budianto
Brumm, Adam
Aubert, Maxime
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OConnor, S
Bulbeck, D
Meyer, J
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In October 2014, the world learned that the oldest surviving hand stencils and rock paintings of animals were located in southern Sulawesi rather than in Europe. These results, produced using uranium-series dating methods, were the first reported Pleistocene ages for figurative rock art imagery in Island Southeast Asia. We summarise this discovery and its significance in relation to associated research on the oldest rock art of Europe before discussing future research priorities including contemporary concerns about the rock art’s conservation that resulted from discussions between the authors and others in 2015. This review is relevant for rock art research not only for the greater Sulawesi region but also many other parts of the world.
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The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on the Pleistocene to the Historic Period
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© The Author(s) 2018. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
Heritage and cultural conservation