Environmental Change in the Aru Islands

Abstract

1. The Aru Islands in perspective : a general introduction / Matthew Spriggs, Sue O'Connor and Peter Veth -- 2. Environmental change in the Aru Islands / Geoffrey Hope and Ken Aplin -- 3. Mammals and other vertebrates from late quaternary archaeological sites on Pulau Kobroor, Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia / Ken Aplin and Juliette Pasveer -- 4. Three seasons of archaeological survey in the Aru Islands, 1995-97 / Matthew Spriggs, Peter Veth, Sue O'Connor, Husni Mohammad, Ako Jatmiko, Widya Nayati, Aliza Diniasti Saleh and Djoko Witjaksono -- 5. The Ujir site : an early historic maritime settlement in Northwestern Aru / Peter Veth, Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs, Widya Nayati, Ako Jatmiko and Husni Mohammad -- 6. Wangil Midden : a late prehistoric site, with remarks on ethnographic pottery making / Peter Veth, Matthew Spriggs, Sue O'Connor and Aliza Diniasti Saleh -- 7. Liang Nabulei Lisa : a late pleistocene and holocene sequence from the Aru Islands / Sue O'Connor, Ken Aplin, Juliette Pasveer and Geoff Hope -- 8. Human remains from Liang Nabulei Lisa, Aru Islands / David Bulbeck -- 9. Liang Lemdubu : a pleistocene cave site in the Aru Islands / Sue O'Connor, Ken Aplin, Katherine Szabo, Juliette Pasveer, Peter Veth and Matthew Spriggs -- 10. Artefacts on Aru : evaluating the technological sequences / Peter Hiscock -- 11. Bone artefacts from Liang Lemdubu and Liang Nabulei Lisa, Aru Islands / Juliette Pasveer -- 12. The last glacial maximum human burial from Liang Lemdubu in Northern Sahulland / David Bulbeck -- 13. Isoleucine epimerization in Casuarius eggshells from archaeological sites in the Aru Islands, Liang Lemdubu and Liang Nabulei Lisa / Simon J. Clarke and Gifford H. Miller -- 14. On the cultural history of the Aru Islands : some conclusions / Sue O'Connor, Matthew Spriggs and Peter Veth.