Renewed excavations at a limestone rock-shelter inhabited by ‘Ice Age’ hunter-gatherers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi have revealed new evidence for earlier human occupation, according to findings by Associate Professor Adam Brumm of Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), and colleagues from Indonesia’s National Research Centre for Archaeology (ARKENAS), published today in the journal PLOS ONE.
Sulawesi is the largest island in the ‘Wallacean’ archipelago, a vast chain of islands located between the separate Ice Age landmasses of Asia and Australia-New Guinea.
Leang Burung 2 rock-shelter.
The rock-shelter at Leang Burung 2 in the Maros karsts of southern Sulawesi has long-held significance in our understanding of the early human prehistory of the lands to the immediate north of Australia.
In 1975, artifacts recovered at Leang Burung 2 by archaeologist Ian Glover were interpreted as evidence of occupation by modern humans between 25,000 and 34,000 years ago, but excavations were discontinued before
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