Prehistoric Trade in Papua, Indonesia
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_61How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Artifacts; Period; Trade; in Papua
- Abstract
The study of prehistoric trading in the Papua region is very interesting to do. The existence of various kinds of artifacts found that were not sourced or not made in the Papua region, is thought to have existed as a result of past trading activities. Archaeological evidence shows that trade in the Southeast Asia - Pacific region has occurred since prehistoric times, namely the late Pleistocene to 3500 BP at the Bukit Tengkorak site, Sabah, Malaysia with evidence of obsidian findings from Talaud and also from Talasea in Melanesia. In Papua, based on the findings of sea shells at the Togece Cave site in the central highlands, it is clear that local exchanges have occurred since 6000 years ago. Then after the arrival of Austronesian speakers in the Papua region, exchanges became more widespread with various evidences down to historical times. In this paper we try to describe a number of archaeological data in the Papua region which are considered as evidence of past exchanges, starting from the Pre-Austronesian, Early Austronesian and Early Metal periods, as well as Ethnohistorical data and Ethnoarchaeological data as data used to describe a possibility of ways and forms of exchange that may have occurred in prehistoric times.
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TY - CONF AU - Erlin Novita Idje Djami AU - Bau Men AU - Rini Maryone AU - Klementin Fairyo PY - 2023 DA - 2023/06/27 TI - Prehistoric Trade in Papua, Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural (ICLC 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 734 EP - 746 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_61 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_61 ID - Djami2023 ER -