The Ujir Site: An Early Historic Maritime Settlement in Northwestern Aru

Veth, Peter; O'Connor, Susan; Spriggs, Matthew; Nayati, Widya; Jatmiko, Ako; Husni, Mohammad

doi:10.22459/ta22.2007.05

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“…The theory that has been agreed so far is that the path of human migration in the Maluku Archipelago is divided into two directions: from Mangoli Island towards the North to the Northern and Eastward to the Southern part of the Maluku Archipelago. The archaeological record shows that the artifactual data found at the Gola Cave Site, Halmahera, North Maluku Islands is around 30,000 years old, or the same age as the artifactual data found at the Liang Lembudu and Nabulei Lisa sites in the Aru Islands (Mansyur, 2007; O'Connor, Veth, 2005;Veth et al, 2005). This fact is one of the primary supports for the theory of two human migration routes in the Indonesian Archipelago, the North and South routes.…”

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Tracing the Earliest Settlements on Seram Island, as a Theoretical Framework for the Chronology of Human Occupation in the Maluku Archipelago

Mujabuddawat

2021

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Pulau Seram merupakan pulau terbesar dalam kawasan Kepulauan Maluku bagian Selatan. Studi geologi juga secara umum menyimpulkan bahwa Seram merupakan salah satu pulau yang paling tua ditinjau dari usia geologi di Kepulauan Maluku. Tradisi lisan masyarakat asli Maluku mengenal Pulau Seram dengan sebutan ‘Nusa Ina’ atau ‘Pulau Ibu,’ serta diyakini sebagai lokasi legenda ‘Nunusaku’ atau asal-usul orang Maluku saat ini. Sejumlah riwayat penelitian yang pernah dilakukan oleh para ahli merekam berbagai data arkeologi yang tersebar di Pulau Seram sebagai bukti bekas hunian dan permukiman. Data arkeologi yang ditemukan di Pulau Seram cukup beragam yang berasal dari masa paleolitik, neolitik, hingga masa sejarah, menjadikan Pulau Seram sebagai lokasi yang memiliki data riwayat periodisasi hunian paling lengkap dan panjang. Informasi tradisi lisan juga laporan masyarakat relatif menjadi rujukan dalam penelusuran data arkeologi di lokasi yang terindikasi sebagai hunian dan permukiman kuno. Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan jejak-jejak hunian dan permukiman paling awal di Pulau Seram serta Kepulauan Maluku bagian Selatan secara umum. Penelusuran data arkeologis dilakukan melalui observasi lapangan. Analisis penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif terhadap seluruh data arkeologis dan informasi tradisi lisan yang dikumpulkan dengan merujuk pada kajian referensi yang relevan. Penelitian ini membahas sejumlah riwayat penelusuran hunian dan permukiman pada masa prakolonial yang pernah diinisiasi selama ini, serta upaya penelusuran data arkeologis terbaru berdasarkan informasi tradisi lisan dan laporan masyarakat. Penelitian ini juga bertujuan untuk merangkum dan menelaah kembali sejumlah referensi termutakhir mengenai teori penghunian paling awal Kepulauan Maluku yang sejauh ini masih menjadi diskusi yang menarik, mengingat minimnya referensi data arkeologi serta uji kronologi absolut di wilayah ini. Penelitian ini menghasilkan rekonstruksi teori penghunian dan permukiman paling awal di Pulau Seram pada khususnya dan Kepulauan Maluku secara umum. Seram Island is the largest island in the Southern part of the Maluku Archipelago. Geological studies also generally conclude that Seram is one of the oldest islands in Maluku. The oral tradition of the indigenous people of Maluku knows Seram Island as 'Nusa Ina' or 'Mother Island.' Seram Island is the location of the legend of 'Nunusaku' or the origins of the Maluku People. Several historical studies by experts record various archaeological data scattered on Seram Island as evidence of early human dwellings and settlements. Archaeological data on Seram Island is quite varied from the Paleolithic Neolithic to historical periods. The data shows Seram Island as the most comprehensive location of periodization of human occupation. Information on oral traditions and community reports are relatively being a reference in tracing archaeological data in some areas indicated as ancient dwellings and settlements. This study describes the traces of the earliest dwellings and settlements on Seram Island and the Southern Maluku Islands in general. The archaeological data was collected through field observations. The analysis of this study used a qualitative descriptive method on all archaeological data and information on oral traditions collected by referring to relevant reference studies. This research discusses several references of early dwellings and settlements in the pre-colonial period that have been initiated so far and the latest archaeological data based on information on oral traditions and community reports. This study also aims to summarize and review a number of the most recent references to the theory of the earliest settlement of the Maluku Archipelago, which so far is still an interesting discussion, considering the lack of archaeological data references and absolute chronology tests in this region. This research delivers a reconstruction of the theory of the earliest dwellings and settlements on Seram Island and the Maluku Archipelago in general.

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Tracing the Earliest Settlements on Seram Island, as a Theoretical Framework for the Chronology of Human Occupation in the Maluku Archipelago

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“…Today the site is relatively undisturbed, and many remains of the old village can be seen on the surface, including a variety of ceramic tradeware and glass. The artefacts on the surface further confirm Ujir's status as a trade entrepôt (Veth et al 2000(Veth et al , 2005.…”

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“…From the time of European contact, and likely well before, Ujir, together with the neighbouring island of Wasir, and the nearby settlements of Wokam and Dobo, have formed an area of interface between Aru and global trade, colonialism, and later the modern state of Indonesia. This makes Ujir a particularly intriguing community for those studying boundaries, trade, and cultural interaction, and the earliest archaeological surveys of the site, undertaken as part of an Indonesian and international collaboration at the end of the twentieth century, confirmed this value from a material culture perspective as well (Veth et al 2000(Veth et al , 2005.…”

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“…Continuing the work which Veth et al (2000Veth et al ( , 2005 began in the 1990s, a collaborative team of archaeologists from the University of Washington, Pusat Penelitian Arkeologi Nasional, and Balai Arkeologi Maluku conducted surface survey and limited excavations in the kampung lama and other locations on Pulau Ujir during 2015 and 2018, with the gracious permission and advice of village leaders and elders. Two finds from this research merit special attention, as they show a history of both trade and creative modification to serve new purposes -a process still visible every day in the present village.…”

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The lives of things on Pulau Ujir; Aru’s engagement with commercial expansion

Whittaker

2019

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In places with limited access to manufactured goods, people must develop creative strategies to make the most of available materials, both those produced by humans and those taken from the natural world. Although Pulau Ujir, in the Aru Islands, has a long history of engagement with global trade networks, until recently the community's access to manufactured goods was limited and infrequent. As a result, in the past objects there tended to take on new lives, and still do today: they are modified, re-purposed, and recycled in ingenious ways. This article explores the relationship between people and things in Ujir from the perspectives of object biography and Actor Network Theory. I argue that the complex "life stories" of material things in such conditions of scarcity deserve special attention, because they may explain not only puzzling archaeological phenomena, but also aspects of the social lives of the people who used and reused them. Two modified and repurposed fragments, one of porcelain and one of glass, serve as examples.

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“…Looking at the historic sources for the area east of Maluku it is clear that similar defensive settlements were built as far east as Papua. Merton (1910) reported that fortifications at Ujir in the Aru Islands were already abandoned when he visited the islands in 1908 (Schapper this volume; Veth et al 2005).…”

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Surveys of fortified sites in Southern Wallacea

O'Connor¹,

Kealy²,

McWilliam³

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Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations

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Wanukaka Parimareha Lat.-09.789°L ong. 119.389°A lt. 121 m Fortified village 3 houses, high stone walls 3 Wanukaka Kulke Lat.-09.792°L ong. 119.388°A lt. 124 m Fortified village on top of hill 4 houses, stone walls 4 Loli Praigege Lat.-09.554°L ong. 119.453°A lt. 539 m Old walled village on hilltop, large: ~200 m across Many internal walls, broken graves, pottery 5 Loli Kodarawa Watuoleate Lat.-09.543°L ong. 119.489°A lt. 514 m Old site on hilltop above village, small Very rocky. 2 graves 6 Laratama Wei Malado Lat.-09.461°L ong. 119.414°A lt. 504 m Fortified village Very overgrown, walls, spirit house, graves Note: 1 Approximate altitude.

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The Ujir Site: An Early Historic Maritime Settlement in Northwestern Aru

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Tracing the Earliest Settlements on Seram Island, as a Theoretical Framework for the Chronology of Human Occupation in the Maluku Archipelago

Tracing the Earliest Settlements on Seram Island, as a Theoretical Framework for the Chronology of Human Occupation in the Maluku Archipelago

The lives of things on Pulau Ujir; Aru’s engagement with commercial expansion

Surveys of fortified sites in Southern Wallacea

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