[HTML][HTML] Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments

S Hawkins, S O'Connor, TR Maloney, M Litster… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Wallacea Archipelago provides an extraordinary laboratory for the study of
human colonisation and adaptation, yet few detailed archaeological studies have been …

Islands under the sea: a review of early modern human dispersal routes and migration hypotheses through Wallacea

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - The Journal of Island and Coastal …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Wallacea is the transitional biogeographic zone between the continents of Sunda
(Southeast Asia) and Sahul (Australian-New Guinea). It consists of a series of island chains …

[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 …

Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

P Roberts, J Louys, J Zech, C Shipton, S Kealy… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The resource-poor, isolated islands of Wallacea have been considered a major adaptive
obstacle for hominins expanding into Australasia. Archaeological evidence has hinted that …

Reconstructing palaeogeography and inter‐island visibility in the Wallacean Archipelago during the likely period of Sahul colonization, 65–45 000 years ago

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - Archaeological Prospection, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The palaeogeography of the Wallacea Archipelago is a significant factor in understanding
early modern human colonization of Sahul (Australia and New Guinea), and models of …

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 …

Hominin dispersal and settlement east of Huxley's Line: The role of sea level changes, island size, and subsistence behavior

S O'Connor, J Louys, S Kealy… - Current …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
The thousands of islands east of Huxley's Line have never formed a single land mass or
been connected to Sunda or Sahul. The earliest records of hominins in this area are stone …

The exploitation of toxic fish from the terminal Pleistocene in maritime Southeast Asia: A case study from the Mindoro archaeological sites, Philippines

C Boulanger, A Pawlik, S O'connor, AM Sémah… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Seascapes were the last environments to be discovered and mastered in
the history of humankind. The adaptation to such environments therefore required the …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Big questions for small animals. Taphonomic analysis of small vertebrates in Matja Kuru 2 (Timor-Leste) during the late pleistocene

SCS Carro, C Raymond, V Weisbecker… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The analysis of subsistence practices in the Lesser Sunda Islands (from Bali in the west to
Wetar and Timor to the east) provides data to interpret anatomically modern humans' …