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Natural PlacesSite Name: JerimalaiCountry: Indonesia
NOTE: This site is 478.624 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Village: Tutuala
Latitude: 8.4S Longitude: 127.250000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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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