martes, 4 de abril de 2017

Researchers uncover prehistoric art and ornaments from Indonesian ‘Ice Age’


1/8. A drilled and perforated finger bone from a bear cuscus. The hole at one end of the bone formerly bore a string, while wear marks on the ornament show that it repeatedly rubbed against human skin or clothing. These suggest the perforated bone was suspended for use as a ‘pendant’ or similar jewellery object. Luke Marsden, Author provided

Griffith University archaeologists are part of a joint Indonesian-Australian team that has unearthed a rare collection of prehistoric art and ‘jewellery’ objects from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, dating in some instances to as early as 30,000 years ago.

The Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE) team, based in Griffith’s Environmental Futures Research Institute, together with Indonesian colleagues, have shed new light on ‘Ice Age’ human culture and symbolism in a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The study was co-led by Associate Professor Adam Brumm, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and Dr Michelle Langley , who also holds a fellowship from the ARC, analysed the recovered artefacts, and is the country’s leading expert in the study of ancient ornaments and bone technology.
“Scientists have long been curious about the cultural lives of the first Homo sapiens to inhabit the lands to the immediate north of Australia sometime prior to 50,000 years ago — part of the great movement of our species out of Africa,” Associate Professor Brumm says. [...] Griffith News / Link 2


Actualización: Hallazgos reveladores de arte prehistórico de la "Era Glacial" de Indonesia — Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
Existe un gran interés científico por conocer mucho mejor la vida cultural de los primeros Homo sapiens que habitaron las tierras en el norte de Australia, en algún momento anterior a los últimos 50.000 años, como parte del gran movimiento migratorio de nuestra especie fuera de África. Algunos han argumentado que la cultura humana del Pleistoceno vio reducida su sofisticación a medida que aquellos humanos se adentraban más allá de la India hacia los trópicos del sudeste asiático y las cadenas de islas al este de Eurasia continental, región conocida como Wallacea. Sin embargo, muchas investigaciones recientes sobre el pasado de Wallacea están desmantelando poco a poco esta creencia...

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Actualización: Hallazgos reveladores de arte prehistórico de la "Era Glacial" de Indonesia