Two millennia of socio-cultural development in Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Bulbeck, F David; Prasetyo, Bagyo

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“…More non-cave sites have been excavated dating to the post 2000 BP period, and these sites provide some insight into settlement patterns. By this time, if not earlier, people were living in houses clustered into villages and towns in much of Island Southeast Asia, particularly the better documented coastal areas (Bacus 1999;Bulbeck, et al 2001;Bulbeck and Prasetyo 2000). A rich documentary record, particularly for times after the arrival of first sustained contact with Europeans after 1512 AD, also supports the archaeological evidence (e.g.…”

Section: Culture History Of East Timor In a Regional Contextmentioning

confidence: 54%

Explaining Fortifications in Indo‐Pacific Prehistory

Field¹

2008

Archaeology in Oceania

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This paper puts forward the premise that fortifications are uniquely suited to addressing questions of climatic variation and human response, as they are large, permanent repositories of human history, and also reflect behaviors directly associated with conflict, territorialism, and the limits of local environments. A revision of theoretical perspectives and a model of conflict derived from human behavioral ecology can better direct future research. In application, this model outlines a program of research for fortifications, which can be used to more critically assess the impact of paleoclimatic change on human prehistory.

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Section: Culture History Of East Timor In a Regional Contextmentioning

confidence: 54%

Explaining Fortifications in Indo‐Pacific Prehistory

Field¹

2008

Archaeology in Oceania

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“…Excavations of four Neolithic to Metal Age sites along the Karama River, due west of the Toraja highlands, have not unearthed any Toalean traces (Van Heekeren 1972: 185-190;Simanjuntak 1994-95). In Luwu to the east of the Toraja highlands, thousands of flaked stone artifacts have been recorded at twelve sites (Bulbeck and Prasetyo 1999;Bulbeck 2000d), none of them typologically Toalean. Accordingly it would appear that the northern boundary of the Toalean is marked by a saline channel (or belt of swampy land) that had stretched across the peninsula in the region of the Tempe depression during the middle Holocene (cf.…”

Section: Temporal and Chronological Variation In The Toleanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture History of the Toalean of South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Bulbeck¹,

Pasqua²,

Lello³

2000

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This paper reviews the current evidence on typologically specialized tools assigned to the Toalean tradition of the southwest Sulawesi peninsula. Bone points and a range of stone points appeared across the peninsula in the early Holocene; this probably occurred as part of the expansion of archery and improved spear technology in Island Southeast Asia at the time. The technologically most specialized Toalean tools, namely backed microliths and Maros points, were evidently confined to the southwest of the peninsula. Backed microliths occur in contexts spanning some six millennia, but Maros points were largely restricted to the immediately preceramic period, approximately 5500 to 3500 B.P. The distribution of these tool types closely matches the area where late Holocene pottery in the ornate "Sa Huynh-Kalanay" tradition has been recorded, and where Makasar languages are spoken today. Sulawesi's southwest peninsula may have effectively been an island throughout much of the Holocene, and its southwest fringe runs hard against a major cordillera. Thus, physiographic constraints laid the basis for the division of the peninsula into two "social landscapes" that display long-term continuity throughout the Holocene, notwithstanding fundamental changes in subsistence patterns and technology.

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“…Similarly, those settlements previously thought of as inland may have been on the coast in the past, and thus need to be re-interpreted as places where cross-cultural interaction took place (Allen 1991(Allen , 1998). Bulbeck has investigated the origins of the Bugis state in south Sulawesi, and found intriguing discontinuities between Bugis texts, which describe heroic Bugis migration and conquest of the Luwu region, and archaeological data which suggest long term stability and prestige trade predating the supposed Bugis conquest (Bulbeck 1992;Bulbeck and Prasetyo 2000).…”

Section: Social Complexity and Indianizationmentioning

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A highway and a crossroads: Island Southeast Asia and culture contact archaeology

Lape

2003

Archaeology in Oceania

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Island Southeast Asia has several distinctive elements of its archaeological and documentary record that make it a particularly fertile region in which to further explore and develop theories of culture contact and cross-cultural interaction. In contrast to the traditional view of other regions, such as pre-European contact North America, archaeologists have always seen Island Southeast Asia as a zone of cross-cultural interaction, or as a passageway for migrations to other areas. Despite this potential, the region remains relatively under-explored archaeologically, and problems of cross-cultural interaction have not been the orientation for most of the archaeological research that has been done. There are several possible explanations for this relative lack of focus: this paper will review several case studies that demonstrate how additional research can contribute to general theory about the interaction of human social groups.

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Two millennia of socio-cultural development in Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Cited by 13 publications

References 2 publications

Explaining Fortifications in Indo‐Pacific Prehistory

Explaining Fortifications in Indo‐Pacific Prehistory

Culture History of the Toalean of South Sulawesi, Indonesia

A highway and a crossroads: Island Southeast Asia and culture contact archaeology

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