From: jdcroft
Message: 580
Date: 2002-04-18
> It is well known that some caves had been inhabited for manyRock solid. You may be interested in "Direct evidence for human use
> millennia (often with gaps) by peoples of different cultures. For
> the Kilu rockshelter there are 2 periods of occupation, one c.28,000
> to 20,000 years BP and one c.9,000 to 6500 years BP
> (http://www.ahc.gov.au/infores/HERA/pleistocene/png.html).
> It is very important from which layer of the cave the taro starch
> traces origin. Is it sure that from the oldest one?
> Anyway it's very interesting. But I'd wait a bit before making theI find it interesting that the cultural efflorescence of the Upper
> final conclusions.
>region
>
> Alexander
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> > Alexander
> >
> > While hunting for Web Based resources for you on your post here
> >
> > > What do you mean? The Solomon Islands? Other parts of this
> > > were not populated yet, AFAIK. Could you give any referencesplease.
> >sea
> > I found the following
> >
> > Human settlement of Sahul (Australia and New Guinea, joined when
> > levels were lower) in the Pleistocene almost certainly involvedperhaps
> > repeated, purposeful water crossings of some distance. It is
> > no surprise, therefore, that people had crossed the Vitiaz Straitto
> > the Bismarck and Solomon Islands by 35 000 years ago; scatteredNew
> > evidence reveals tantalising glimpses of their lives. The early
> > Holocene saw changes in settlement and foraging patterns: in the
> > Guinea Highlands there is evidence for very early agriculture,while
> > the lowlands and islands saw innovations in arboriculture andshell-
> > working. Malaria may have played a key role in limiting populationinvestigation
> > growth in the region.
> >
> > http://dannyreviews.com/h/Road_Winds.html.
> >
> > Golson,J. (1971c) The remarkable history of Indo-Pacific man:
> > missing chapters from every world prehistory. Fifth David Rivett
> > Memorial Lecture of the CSIRO, Canberra
> >
> > Kirch,P.V. and P.H.Rosendahl (1973) Archaeological
> > of Anuta. In D.E. Yen and J. Gordon (eds) Anuta: a Polynesianoutlier
> > in the Solomon Islands, pp.25108. Honolulu: Bernice P. BishopRecords
> > Museum, Department of Anthropology. Pacific Anthropological
> > No.21endemic
> >
> > Deal with some of this
> >
> > The easiest to access is from Steve Wickler's "The Prehistory of
> > Buka: A Stepping Stone Island in the Northern Solomons" Terra
> > Australis series No 16. a joint publication of the Department of
> > Archaeology and Natural History, RSPAS and the Centre for
> > Archaeological Research.
> >
> > "The earliest occupational evidence dates to 29,000 BP at the Kilu
> > cave site. The rich faunal assemblage at this site includes
> > rats which are now extinct. Starch residues and raphides fromaroids
> > found on stone tools from the basal site deposit provide theearliest
> > direct evidence for the use of root crops in the World."of
> >
> > The starch residues and raphides from aroids were found by the
> > Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
> > Australia - the country's leading research organisation - andrelate
> > to chemicals known from domesticated taro - which was not endemicto
> > the Solomon Islands and had to have been introduced from outsidethe
> > islands.in
> >
> > Thus suggests that the cultivation of root crops in fact occurred
> > the Sahul region long before any evidence of grain farming in theand
> > Middle East (previously hailed as the beginnings of agriculture).
> > This fact suggests
> >
> > 1. a mechanism for the widespread nature of Indo-Pacific languages
> > (Andaman, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Solomons)
> >
> > 2. a mechanism whereby very early Sahul cultivars (eg breadfruit,
> > sugar cane, sago, Musa australis bananas, a variety of swamp taro
> > possibly domesticated coconuts) could have been taken from PapuaNew
> > Guinea back into Indonesia, there to be spread by laterAustronesian
> > settlement some of them from Madagascar to Easter Island)http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
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