[HTML][HTML] Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)

S Kealy, S O'Connor, DM Sari, C Shipton… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
We report archaeological findings from a significant new cave site on Alor Island, Indonesia,
with an in situ basal date of 40,208–38,454 cal BP. Twenty thousand years older than the …

Framing Australian Pleistocene coastal occupation and archaeology

K Ditchfield, S Ulm, T Manne, H Farr, D O'Grady… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are few archaeological sites that contain records for Pleistocene coastal occupation in
Australia, as is the case globally. Two major viewpoints seek to explain why so few sites …

[HTML][HTML] Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Archaeological records from Australia provide the earliest, indirect evidence for maritime
crossings by early modern humans, as the islands to the north-west of the continent …

The invisible plant technology of Prehistoric Southeast Asia: Indirect evidence for basket and rope making at Tabon Cave, Philippines, 39–33,000 years ago

H Xhauflair, S Jago-On, TJ Vitales, D Manipon… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A large part of our material culture is made of organic materials, and this was likely the case
also during prehistory. Amongst this prehistoric organic material culture are textiles and …

Pleistocene Water Crossings and Adaptive Flexibility Within the Homo Genus

D Gaffney - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021 - Springer
Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend
beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains …

Terminal Pleistocene emergence of maritime interaction networks across Wallacea

S O'Connor, S Kealy, C Reepmeyer… - World …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The crossing of the Wallacean islands and settlement of Sahul by modern humans over
50,000 years ago, represents the earliest successful seafaring of our species anywhere in …

[HTML][HTML] Technological and behavioural complexity in expedient industries: The importance of use-wear analysis for understanding flake assemblages

R Fuentes, R Ono, N Nakajima, H Nishizawa… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Expedient lithic technology has been described as unchanging and without or very limited
presence of formal tool types. However, this premise seems to limit the discussion on …

[BOOK][B] From Arabia to the Pacific: How our species colonised Asia

R Dennell - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

Shell adzes, exotic obsidian, and inter-island voyaging in the early and middle Holocene of Wallacea

C Shipton, S O'Connor, C Reepmeyer… - The Journal of Island …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The environmental extremes of the Last Glacial Maximum and the subsequent warming and
sea-level rise into the Holocene had profound implications for human behavior across much …

Talking Dead. New burials from Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island, Indonesia) inform on the evolution of mortuary practices from the terminal Pleistocene to the Holocene in …

SC Samper-Carro, S O'Connor, Mahirta, S Kealy… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Burial elaborations are a human behaviour that, in recent contexts can inform on social
diversification, belief systems, and the introduction of new practices resulting from migration …