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Jerimalai Cave Indonesia

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 June 2012  Page Views: 20597

Natural PlacesSite Name: Jerimalai
Country: Indonesia
NOTE: This site is 350.495 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
 Nearest Village: Tutuala
Latitude: 8.4S  Longitude: 127.250000E
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Jerimalai submitted by bat400 : Jerimalai Rock Shelter on East Timor. Photo courtesy Sue O'Connor, Australian National University. This photo has been reproduced as part of news stories, including Discovery Magazine, http://discovermagazine.com/2012/apr/08-worlds-oldest-deep-sea-fishermen (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave or Rock Shelter in East Timor.
The remains found in Jerimalai Rock Shelter are the oldest evidence of occupation by modern humans on the islands that were the stepping stones from South-East Asia to Australia. People lived there at least 42 000 years ago.

These finds may indicate the specific route of modern humans who pioneered the the route to Austrailia. Approximately 50000 years ago, low ocean levels created a continental shelf, Sunda, creating a contiguous land mass where southeast Asia now lies. But Sahul, the contenental extension of the current Austrailia and New Guinea did not connect to Sunda, so the modern humans were still forced to island hop as they moved farther south. East Timor was one of the Sunda islands.

The people who lived at Jerimalei ate turtles, tuna, and giant rats. Their stone tools, fishhooks, worked shells remain.

Note: The location given is for the general area and does not reflect the specific location of the rock shelter.

Sources:
Sue O'Connor (Australian National University), "New evidence from East Timor contributes to our understanding of earliest modern human colonisation east of the Sunda Shelf", Antiquity, Volume: 81 Number: 313 and "Long-term obsidian use at the Jerimalai rock shelter in East Timor", Archaeology in Oceania, vol. 46, no. 2.

Deborah Smith, "Timor cave may reveal how humans reached Australia" , and "Cave find a stepping stone back to early man".

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Our ancestors mastered deep-sea fishing 42,000 years ago by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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A team of Australian experts have uncovered evidence of the practice in a small cave at the eastern end of East Timor, north of Australia, which contained the bones of more than 2,800 fish.

Some were caught as long as 42,000 years ago. Fish bones and hooks at the excavation site in an East Timor cave, which showed prehistoric humans were adept at catching fast-moving fish in deep water

They also found the world's earliest recorded fish hook, made of shell and dating from between 23,000 and 16,000 years ago, during excavations at the Jerimalai cave site.

Sue O'Connor (Austrailian National University) said it demonstrated prehistoric man had high-level maritime skills, and by implication, the technology needed to make the ocean crossings to reach Australia.

'What the site in East Timor has shown us is that early modern humans in Southeast Asia had amazingly advanced maritime skills.



'They were expert at catching the types of fish that would be challenging even today - fish like tuna. It's a very exciting find.'

Tuna can be caught using nets or by trawling hooks on long lines through the sea. But this can be tricky even by today's standards

She added that the finds may shed light on how Australia's first inhabitants arrived on the continent, with the implication that seaworthy boats would have been used to fish in the deep ocean.



Also thanks to coldrum for a similar story. Read more from the article by Simon Tomlinson at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech.

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Over 40,000 years ago, ancient Australians were using sophisticated equipment to brin by bat400 on Tuesday, 26 June 2012
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One of the earliest signs of advanced maritime skill, deep-sea fishing has been tenuously traced back roughly 12,000 years. Now an archaeologist has lengthened that timeline another 30,000 years.

The researcher, Sue O’Connor of Australian National University, began her search on an island off the northern coast of Australia where colonizers from Asia are thought to have landed. O’Connor had already found early fishing technology in the area, so when local hunters led her to a nearby limestone cave, she wondered whether it had once sheltered ancient mariners.

One month later she and a team of farmers had recovered some 10,000 bits of stone, bone, and shell. The deepest, oldest layers of sediment had hardened, yielding chunks with artifacts studding their surfaces.

O’Connor brought the slabs to her lab and treated them with acetic acid, which coaxed out thousands more fish bones. Many of the oldest belonged to tuna, sharks, and other fast, deep-swimming fish that could not have been brought to the cave without boats and sophisticated equipment. O’Connor was startled to find that these remains dated to 42,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of deep-sea fishermen on record: “We knew we had a really big fishing story.”



Thanks to coldrum for the link. See more in the article by Emily Elert in discovermagazine.com and the paper by Sue O’Connor, Rintaro Ono, Chris Clarkson,
"Pelagic Fishing at 42,000 Years Before the Present and the Maritime Skills of Modern Humans", Science 25 November 2011.
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