演講摘要
Modern human (Homo sapiens) are thought to be originated from African continent and migrated into tropical and sub-tropical Asian island regions by sea crossing during the late Pleistocene. In Island South east Asia, modern human further migrated into Sahul continent in Oceania by crossing sea from Wallacea by around 50 ka. It required relatively longer distance sea fearing over 50 -80 km from the eastern ends of Wallacean islands like Timor Island where the oldest dated archaeological sites located.
In maritime East Asia, on the other hands, numbers of Paleolithic sites appeared by around 40 ka on main island (Honsyu, Kyusyu, and Shikoku Island) of Japan. In the late Pleistocene, these islands were connected each other by land-bridge and the distance of sea gap between the main island and Korean peninsula might be less than 20 km or partly connected before 12 ka. However, the Ryukyu Islands, the southern islands in Japanese Archipelago with the length of about 1200 km located between Kyusyu Island from Taiwan are basically divided as Northern Ryukyu, Central Ryukyu, and Southern Ryukyu groups also have numbers of late Pleistocene sites with human remains dated around 35 to 20 ka.
This presentation introduces (1) the early modern human maritime migration and resource use in Wallacea and also (2) such maritime migration in the Ryukyu Islands as well as (3) later Neolithic Austronesian migration into Island SES and Oceania. For the case of Neolithic Austronesian migration, I introduce the results of our previous excavations of some Neolithic sites in Borneo (Bukit Tengkorak site) and Northern Maluku (Uattamdi site) as well as outcomes of Lapita archaeology in Oceania for further discussion of early Austronesian subsistent strategies in fishing and animal use as well as pottery production.
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