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Island Southeast Asian Worlds: Caves, Coastal Communities, and Maritime Networks

Changing shores, local knowledge, material practices, writing, and sacred landscapes.

Explore twenty selective island contexts, from Pleistocene deposits and painted landscapes to medieval inscriptions, coastal settlements and religious centers. Follow dated evidence and local choices without turning islands, objects or languages into one migration or people.

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Point markers show approximate public towns or distant institutional orientation only, sometimes far from the archaeological context. They never define territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, trade-route, hunting, grazing, farming, fishing or water-rights boundaries. They do not pinpoint burials, ancestral remains, sacred places, private land or vulnerable deposits; grant no access, digging, collecting, hunting or travel permission; and do not decide ownership or current safety. Shared orientation points are intentional, not multiple sites at one coordinate.

Northern Philippines

Batanes: island households and exchange

Batanes: island households and exchange

The Batanes volume brings together excavations at several places and changing practices over millennia. The jade study links some objects to source material through analysis; a source match does not trace every journey or identify a trader.

Island settlement and exchange context Approximately second millennium BCE–1500 CE within a longer published sequence Multi-island excavation, stone sourcing, pottery comparison and museum interpretation
Reference town or distant institutional context
Basco, Batanes: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Southern Luzon

Calatagan: an inscribed pot and reading debates

Calatagan: an inscribed pot and reading debates

Guillermo and Paluga offer a tentative Visayan-language reading; it must not be presented as a universally deciphered text. The museum's gallery brings together different inscribed materials without proving that each uses the same language or script.

Inscribed ceramic and interpretation context Late precolonial or early contact-period context, uncertain; proposed dates may extend beyond 1500 CE Tentative decipherment, regional excavations and museum interpretation
Reference town or distant institutional context
Batangas City: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Palawan

Ille Cave: Palawan and changing environments

Ille Cave: Palawan and changing environments

The 2007 report describes one season within a larger program, not a complete account of every use of the cave. The 2008 study distinguishes late Pleistocene occupation and later practices; a long sequence is not proof of continuous residence.

Cave sequence and environmental context Terminal Pleistocene–Holocene, including approximately 14,000–12,000-year-old occupation evidence Excavation, dating, animal remains and research-history reports
Reference town or distant institutional context
Puerto Princesa, Palawan: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Eastern Timor

Jerimalai / Asitau Kuru: coastal practices and debate

Jerimalai / Asitau Kuru: coastal practices and debate

The 2011 study interprets a long fish assemblage as evidence for substantial use of marine resources. Anderson questions whether the assemblage establishes sustained offshore fishing; fish presence is not a surviving boat or technique.

Pleistocene coastal subsistence context Approximately 42,000 years ago and later sampled phases; fishing technologies have different dates Fish assemblages, worked shell, dated deposits and methodological debate
Reference town or distant institutional context
Baucau, Timor-Leste: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Masbate

Kalanay: pottery, cave research, and interpretation

Kalanay: pottery, cave research, and interpretation

The museum describes a funerary assemblage and explicitly cautions that the finds do not establish habitation. The museum's pottery account includes a decorated Kalanay vessel within a much wider history of earthenware; its broad chronology does not date every cave object.

Ceramic classification and mortuary-context overview Later prehistoric ceramic and metal contexts; exact chronology requires context-specific study Museum accounts of excavated pottery, metal objects and exhibition interpretation
Reference town or distant institutional context
Masbate City: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Bangka and Sumatran maritime connections

Kota Kapur: inscriptions and coastal networks

Kota Kapur: inscriptions and coastal networks

The national heritage account discusses archaeological remains alongside the inscribed object rather than treating a text as the whole settlement. Manguin reports fieldwork and religious material that contribute to the site's history; royal claims do not account for every local practice.

Inscription, settlement and political-claim context First millennium CE, including an inscription dated 686 CE; later research distinguished Archaeology, attributed inscription interpretation and regional heritage accounts
Reference town or distant institutional context
Pangkalpinang, Bangka: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Luzon and connected maritime worlds

Laguna Copperplate Inscription: writing and obligations

Laguna Copperplate Inscription: writing and obligations

Postma interprets the dated document as releasing a specified obligation; it is not a survey of everyone's legal status. The museum places the object among several inscriptional traditions, which should not be collapsed into one script or language.

Inscription and social-obligation context 900 CE inscription; modern recovery and interpretation distinguished Epigraphic commentary, museum curation and collection-history accounts
Reference town or distant institutional context
Manila, institutional orientation: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Eastern Timor

Lene Hara: cave deposits and living landscapes

Lene Hara: cave deposits and living landscapes

The 2002 report established a substantial Pleistocene sequence before later work extended the chronology. The 2010 study shows how sediment differences and sampling affect reconstruction across a cave.

Cave sequence and living-heritage context Pleistocene occupation, approximately 42,000 years ago in revised research; later uses distinguished Excavation samples, depositional analysis and community-centered landscape research
Reference town or distant institutional context
Baucau, Timor-Leste: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Flores

Liang Bua: Flores and revised chronology

Liang Bua: Flores and revised chronology

The 2004 article introduced Homo floresiensis as a scientific interpretation of excavated evidence, not a living ethnic category. The 2016 reconstruction separates the approximately 100,000–60,000-year-old remains from a broader stone-artifact sequence.

Pleistocene cave research context Pleistocene evidence, including approximately 100,000–60,000-year-old hominin remains; later layers distinguished Excavated stratigraphy, dating and scientific species descriptions
Reference town or distant institutional context
Ruteng, Flores: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Southern Mindanao

Maitum: vessels, mortuary practice, and craft

Maitum: vessels, mortuary practice, and craft

The encyclopedia reports dated associated samples spanning the period around the start of the Common Era; the results do not give every vessel an exact age. The Kaban exhibition includes Maitum material among archaeological collections. Its display categories are modern curatorial choices.

Mortuary art and museum-interpretation context Approximately turn of the era–first centuries CE, with sample-specific dated ranges Reported excavations, associated dated samples and institutional collection histories
Reference town or distant institutional context
General Santos, Mindanao: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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South Sulawesi

Maros-Pangkep: rock art, dating, and preservation

Maros-Pangkep: rock art, dating, and preservation

Mineral deposits above imagery can establish that an image is older than a dated coating, rather than provide its exact production date. The 2024 study reports a minimum age of approximately 51,200 years for one composition and proposes a narrative interpretation.

Rock-art landscape and dating context Pleistocene imagery with different minimum ages; later research and conservation distinguished Uranium-series studies of mineral coatings, image analysis and conservation research
Reference town or distant institutional context
Makassar, Sulawesi: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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West Sulawesi

Minanga Sipakko and Karama Valley farming contexts

Minanga Sipakko and Karama Valley farming contexts

The 2020 study uses phytolith evidence to investigate rice in the archaeological sequence, including processing rather than just a modern crop analogy. The Karama study compares pottery and settlement evidence with other island sequences; similarity does not identify every household's language.

Neolithic settlement and subsistence context Approximately second millennium BCE onward; sampled settlement phases, not a universal farming origin Excavation, pottery comparison, plant microremains and regional archaeological synthesis
Reference town or distant institutional context
Mamuju, Sulawesi: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Kampar River, Sumatra

Muara Takus: Kampar River monuments

Muara Takus: Kampar River monuments

The tentative-list record describes monuments and surrounding earthworks within a river setting; modern alteration affects what is visible. The national heritage description treats a complex of buildings rather than one precisely dated founding event.

Religious architectural and river-landscape context First–early second millennium CE, chronology debated; modern alteration and heritage history distinguished Brick architecture, heritage surveys and attributed regional interpretation
Reference town or distant institutional context
Pekanbaru, Sumatra: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Northern Sumatra

Padang Lawas and Si Pamutung networks

Padang Lawas and Si Pamutung networks

Degroot compares architecture with regional traditions and Javanese examples without making resemblance a complete population history. The academic review situates the excavated settlement among river connections and wider exchange, not a passive remote outpost.

Inland settlement and religious-network context Approximately ninth–thirteenth centuries CE, with site-specific uncertainties Architectural analysis, reviewed excavation synthesis and provincial monument inventory
Reference town or distant institutional context
Padangsidimpuan, Sumatra: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Bali and wider island exchanges

Pejeng: Bali metalworking and sacred heritage

Pejeng: Bali metalworking and sacred heritage

Ardika's Bali thesis discusses local metalworking evidence in a wider archaeological setting; it is not an excavation report for every Pejeng monument. The Metropolitan Museum's Pejeng-type fragment is attributed to Sumba. The catalogue's proposed date applies to that object, not automatically to the Moon of Pejeng.

Metalworking comparison and living-heritage context Metal-age comparisons and later living heritage; exact dating varies among objects Regional excavation synthesis, comparative museum object and metallurgical research
Reference town or distant institutional context
Denpasar, Bali: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Central Java

Sangiran: fossils, stratigraphy, and changing landscapes

Sangiran: fossils, stratigraphy, and changing landscapes

The 2020 study places the sampled first appearance of Homo erectus near 1.3 million years ago, younger than several earlier estimates. The heritage record concerns a sedimentary landscape containing several kinds of evidence, not a single occupation floor or unchanged community.

Pleistocene landscape and dating context Early–Middle Pleistocene; first-appearance estimates remain revisable Volcanic layers, fossil-bearing deposits, dating studies and heritage monitoring
Reference town or distant institutional context
Surakarta, Java: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Eastern Borneo

Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat: rock-art landscapes

Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat: rock-art landscapes

The 2018 dating study distinguishes phases of imagery instead of assigning all painted surfaces to one moment. Indonesia submitted the landscape to UNESCO's tentative list in 2015; that status differs from inscription and contains interpretations that need scrutiny.

Rock-art landscape and heritage context Pleistocene imagery and later phases; dates vary by sampled surface Mineral-coating dates, stylistic sequence and attributed heritage mapping
Reference town or distant institutional context
Samarinda, Kalimantan: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Pakerisan Valley, Bali

Tampaksiring: Gunung Kawi and Pakerisan landscapes

Tampaksiring: Gunung Kawi and Pakerisan landscapes

The heritage account relates the monuments to eleventh-century patronage and inscriptions; royal associations are not proof that particular bodies were interred there. The conservation record documents care of the rock-cut architecture, not evidence that present surfaces are untouched medieval originals.

Sacred architectural and water-landscape context Principally eleventh century CE patronage contexts; later conservation and living landscapes distinguished Heritage accounts, inscriptions discussed by authorities and conservation records
Reference town or distant institutional context
Denpasar, Bali: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Eastern Java

Trinil: shells, fossils, and provenance

Trinil: shells, fossils, and provenance

The shell study identifies modification and engraving in the historical collection, while leaving the mark's purpose unresolved. Reanalysis reconstructs a more complicated succession than a single fossil-bearing horizon; dates must follow the sampled layer.

Pleistocene collection and provenance context Pleistocene deposits; fossil and shell ages require separate provenance assessment Historical excavation records, museum collections, shell analysis and revised stratigraphy
Reference town or distant institutional context
Madiun, Java: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Northern Moluccas

Uattamdi and Kayoa pottery networks

Uattamdi and Kayoa pottery networks

The excavation chapter identifies a pottery-bearing sequence on Kayoa whose chronology differs from much older sites elsewhere in the region. The ceramic chapter compares forms, surfaces and decoration rather than identifying an immutable maker population.

Island settlement and ceramic context Approximately 3350–2500 calibrated years ago and later phases; wider Moluccan deep time distinguished Rockshelter excavation, radiocarbon modeling and comparative pottery studies
Reference town or distant institutional context
Ternate, North Maluku: approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound, underwater or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, ritual or travel permission is implied.
Language family
Language, script, material classification, political allegiance, religion and living identity require different evidence; no language census is inferred.
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Evidence-first orientation

Islands, dates, languages, work, and living heritage

Six cited notes distinguish changing geography, material classifications, partial records, multilingual encounters, household practices and living authority.

Islands and changing geographic frames

The Batanes sequence and Karama Valley research concern different islands, periods and connections. Island Southeast Asia, Sunda and Wallacea organize geography, not a single people. Present shores and modern names cannot reconstruct every ancient crossing or boundary.

[C1] [C2]

Material classifications are not peoples

Pottery comparison in Karama and settlement comparison in Batanes identify patterns with different explanations. A style is not a language census, fixed identity or migration route. Austronesian-language histories require evidence beyond matching pots.

[C1] [C2]

Dating and partial records

Lene Hara demonstrates the effects of excavation sampling. The Laguna commentary interprets one situated text, with its own date and purposes. Layers, inscriptions and later accounts answer different questions; no single archive represents every household.

[C3] [C5]

Voyaging, work, and inference

The offshore-fishing critique shows why fish species alone do not recover a boat or fishing technique. Karama's settlement evidence opens questions about farming and craft. Discuss household labor and exchange without assigning an unsupported status, route or ethnicity to every worker.

[C2] [C4]

Sacred and working landscapes

Fataluku landscape research challenges the idea of empty nature, while Bali's record connects sacred places with water and farmers. Living religious and community authority is not granted by an archaeological interpretation. Neither public access to a text nor a map point authorizes ritual, collecting or entry.

[C6] [C7]

Heritage status and living identity

Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat's tentative submission and Bali's inscribed landscape have different heritage statuses. Neither confers reproduction rights or endorsement of this atlas. Coarse orientation points decide no border or ownership, and historical evidence cannot establish personal ancestry, recognition or membership.

[C7] [C8]
  1. C1 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange: The Archaeology of the Batanes Islands, Northern Philippines · Peter Bellwood and Eusebio Dizon, editors; Terra Australis 40; ANU Press
  2. C2 Neolithic foundations in the Karama Valley, West Sulawesi, Indonesia · Anggraeni, Truman Simanjuntak, Peter Bellwood and Philip Piper; Antiquity
  3. C3 The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: Text and commentary · Antoon Postma; Philippine Studies 40(2), 183–203; Ateneo de Manila University repository
  4. C4 The antiquity of sustained offshore fishing · Atholl Anderson; Antiquity
  5. C5 Cave archaeology and sampling issues in the tropics: A case study from Lene Hara Cave, a 42,000 year old occupation site in East Timor, Island Southeast Asia · Sue O'Connor, Anthony Barham, Matthew Spriggs, Peter Veth, Ken Aplin and Emma St Pierre; Australian Archaeology 71
  6. C6 The dynamics of culture and nature in a 'protected' Fataluku landscape · Sue O'Connor, Sandra Pannell and Sally Brockwell; Transcending the Culture–Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage, chapter 14; ANU Press
  7. C7 Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  8. C8 Sangkulirang – Mangkalihat Karts: Prehistoric rock art area · Permanent Delegation of Indonesia to UNESCO; tentative-list submission
Connected coverage

Topics already reviewed elsewhere in the atlas are linked instead of duplicated.

Niah Caves and northern Borneo deep history Open the established Niah Caves and northern Borneo deep history context for comparison, not a duplicate sequence or proof of direct continuity, one voyage, shared ethnicity or modern descent. Tabon Cave Complex and Palawan deep history Open the established Tabon Cave Complex and Palawan deep history context for comparison, not a duplicate sequence or proof of direct continuity, one voyage, shared ethnicity or modern descent. Butuan boats and Philippine maritime communities Open the established Butuan boats and Philippine maritime communities context for comparison, not a duplicate sequence or proof of direct continuity, one voyage, shared ethnicity or modern descent. Borobudur and Central Javanese political-religious networks Open the established Borobudur and Central Javanese political-religious networks context for comparison, not a duplicate sequence or proof of direct continuity, one voyage, shared ethnicity or modern descent. Muarajambi and Sumatran river networks Open the established Muarajambi and Sumatran river networks context for comparison, not a duplicate sequence or proof of direct continuity, one voyage, shared ethnicity or modern descent. Trowulan and Majapahit political networks Open the established Trowulan and Majapahit political networks context for comparison, not a duplicate sequence or proof of direct continuity, one voyage, shared ethnicity or modern descent.
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A selective regional collection, not a people census

This editorial release contains 20 profiles. This selective collection is not a census or comprehensive island history. Existing Niah, Tabon, Butuan, Borobudur, Muarajambi and Trowulan contexts are linked rather than duplicated. Preservation and research gaps do not imply that other communities were absent.

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