Seram Island (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Lape. Emily Peterson. Jenn Huff. Joss Whittaker. Lauryl Zenobi.

The Island Southeast Asian Neolithic remains a controversial archaeological construction. Traditional theories explain the appearance of pottery, domestic plants and animals in the region about 3500 years ago as the result of migrations from Taiwan and SE China. Archaeological and genetic data collected in the past decade do not fit well with those theories, and scholars have begun to investigate new explanations. One area of renewed focus is in the relationship between fishing and farming at...