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The Pleistocene Maritime Migration of Modern Humans in Northern Wallacea: The Cases of Topogaro in Sulawesi and Bubog in Mindoro
The Prehistory of Human Migration - Human Expansion, Resource Use, and Mortuary Practice in Maritime Asia (2024)
  • Alfred Pawlik, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Rintaro Ono
  • Dr. Riczar B Fuentes, Ateneo de Manila University
Abstract
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 of the Philippine
islands, except Palawan, and southern Wallacea with the southern Indonesian islands and Timor. This chapter focuses on the cases of early modern human maritime migration and resource use in northern Wallacea during the late Pleistocene. Of the Pleistocene sites in northern Wallacea, two important sites are presented and discussed: the Goa Topogaro cave complex in central Sulawesi, Indonesia, now dated to 42 ka, and the Bubog rock-shelter sites in Mindoro, Philippines, dated to at least 35 ka, based on our excavations. We discuss both localities in their regional context, as well as their role in maritime migration and seafaring in Wallacea and Sahul, and provide a comparison with other cases in the Ryukyu Islands, adjacent to northern Wallacea.
Keywords
  • maritime migration,
  • modern human,
  • island adaptation,
  • Wallacea,
  • Goa Topogaro,
  • Mindoro,
  • northern route,
  • Sulawesi
Publication Date
Summer July 12, 2024
Editor
Rintaro Ono and Alfred Pawlik
Publisher
IntechOpen
DOI
DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.114909
Citation Information
Alfred Pawlik, Rintaro Ono and Riczar B Fuentes. "The Pleistocene Maritime Migration of Modern Humans in Northern Wallacea: The Cases of Topogaro in Sulawesi and Bubog in Mindoro" LondonThe Prehistory of Human Migration - Human Expansion, Resource Use, and Mortuary Practice in Maritime Asia (2024)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alfred-pawlik/31/
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