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Burial traditions in early Mid-Holocene Island Southeast Asia: new evidence from Bubog-1, Ilin Island, Mindoro Occidental

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2019

Alfred Pawlik ,
Rebecca Crozier ,
Riczar Fuentes ,
Rachel Wood  and
Philip Piper
Alfred Pawlik*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University, Ricardo & Dr Rosita Leong Hall, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Philippines National Museum of the Philippines, P. Burgos Drive, Manila, Philippines
Rebecca Crozier
Affiliation:
National Museum of the Philippines, P. Burgos Drive, Manila, Philippines Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK
Riczar Fuentes
Affiliation:
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany The Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH) Project, Rümelinstraße 19–23, Tübingen 72070, Germany
Rachel Wood
Affiliation:
Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, 142 Mills Road, Acton ACT 0200, Australia School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, 44 Linnaeus Way Acton ACT 2601, Australia
Philip Piper
Affiliation:
National Museum of the Philippines, P. Burgos Drive, Manila, Philippines School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, 44 Linnaeus Way Acton ACT 2601, Australia
*
*Author for correspondence (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

The Bubog-1 rockshelter on Ilin Island has provided important evidence for Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene (c. 33 000–4000 cal BP) human habitation, yet little is known about the contemporaneous transmission of material culture, technology and mortuary practices across Island Southeast Asia. Recent archaeological research at Bubog-1 has revealed a tightly flexed inhumation dating to c. 5000 cal BP—a type representative of a widespread, contemporaneous burial practice observed across the region. The emergence of diverse burial practices and their spread across Island Southeast Asia coincides with evidence for technological innovation and increasing long-distance interaction between island communities.

Keywords

Island Southeast AsiaHoloceneburial traditionsmaritime interaction
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 93 , Issue 370 , August 2019 , pp. 901 - 918
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2019 

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