The Pleistocene Maritime Migration of Modern Humans in Northern Wallacea: The Cases of Topogaro in Sulawesi and Bubog in Mindoro

• Main Authors: Ono, Rintaro, Pawlik, Alfred, Fuentes, Riczar
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: maritime migration; modern human; island adaptation; Wallacea; Goa Topogaro; Bubog; Sulawesi; Mindoro; northern route; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/151; https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.114909
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Around 50,000 years ago, early modern humans migrated from Island Southeast Asia and via the Wallacean islands into the continent of Sahul in Oceania by several sea crossings. The Wallacean archipelago can be broadly divided into northern Wallacea comprising the northern Indonesian islands and most...