Djief Hunters, 26,000 Years of Rainforest Exploitation on the Bird's Head of Papua, Indonesia
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Arfak Mountains
artefacts
Australian National University
Author_Juliette M. Pasveer
ayamaru
Ayamaru Lakes
Bird's Head
Bird's Head Peninsula
Bird’s Head
Bird’s Head Peninsula
Body Part
bone
Bone Artefacts
BROWN DORCOPSIS
Category=NKD
Complete Flakes
De Hond
DORCOPSIS MUELLERI
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
faunal succession analysis
Holocene subsistence
Kria Cave
lakes
Latex Peel
Lithic Assemblage
Northern Moluccas
peninsula
Pleistocene archaeology
possum
prehistoric hunting strategies
Shaft Fragments
Sq Ua
square
St Ag
stone
Stone Artefacts
striped
sustainable resource exploitation in Papua
Ta Ge
tropical rainforest adaptation
Unburnt Bone
Unit II
Unit III
Unit Iv
Van Der Kaars
zooarchaeological methods
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- ISBN 9789058096630
- Weight: 1000g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2004
- Publisher: A A Balkema Publishers
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
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Two prehistoric cave sites on the Bird's Head of western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26,000 years of human occupation of this area. During Late Pleistocene times, lower temperatures allowed a suite of montane animal species to descend onto the lowland Ayamaru Plateau. When the montane fauna receded during the subsequent climatic amelioration, people switched their hunting focus to a forest wallaby, known locally as Djief. Detailed analysis of this species' remains, including the reconstruction of their age profile, provides insights into why prolonged hunting of this species did not lead to its extinction. The wallaby population evidently thrived at its demographic maximum throughout the early and mid-Holocene, suggesting that human population densities, and therefore hunting pressure, were low until c. 5000 BP.This volume of Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia offers a unique perspective on sustainable hunting in prehistory and provides intriguing insights into hunter-gatherer subsistence, tool manufacturing and use, the changing intensity of occupation of the sites, and environmental exploitation from Late Pleistocene times onwards in a lowland tropical region. It forms an important contribution to the current debate on the possibilities of human occupation of tropical rainforest before the advent of agriculture.
Pasveer, Juliette M.
