Testing the Waters: Plant Working and Seafaring in Pleistocene Wallacea

• Main Authors: Fuentes, Riczar, Pawlik, Alfred
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2025
• Subjects: Human migration; Prehistoric plant working; Fibre technology; Traceology; Prehistoric seafaring; Maritime technology; Behavioural modernity; Island Southeast Asia; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/156; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105020
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

While the presence of fossils and artefacts provide ample evidence that early modern humans were able to cross the open sea, the very circumstances of why and how they moved into and across Island Southeast Asia (ISEA), and particularly the Wallacean region, remain to be addressed. In this paper we...