1. Introduction -- 2. The research area, fieldwork design and methods of stratigraphic analysis -- 3. Occupation history of Kria Cave -- 4. Occupation history of Toé Cave -- 5. Stone artefacts -- 6. Bone artefacts -- 7. Prehistoric exploitation of food resources -- 8. Prehistoric exploitation of the Brown Dorcopsis -- 9. Vertebrate faunal succession and environmental change in lowland New Guinea -- 10. Discussion and conclusion
Summary
Providing an important contribution to the current debate on the possibilities of human occupation of tropical rainforest before the advent of agriculture, this reference explores human hunting patterns of the Djief forest wallaby from the late Pleistocene. It provides intriguing insights into hunter-gatherer subsistence, tool manufacturing and use, the changing intensity of occupation of the sites, and environmental exploitation in a lowland tropical region. Aimed at researchers, this work gives a detailed account of cultural and biological remains excavated from two prehistoric sit
Analysis
Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-377) and index
Notes
Text in English, with a summary in Indonesian and an appendix in Dutch with parallel English translation
