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Prehistoric Trade in Papua, Indonesia

Authors
Erlin Novita Idje Djami1, *, Bau Men2, Rini Maryone2, Klementin Fairyo2
1Archaeologist at Research Center of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeological, BRIN, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia
2Archaeologist at Reseach Center of Environmental Archaeology, Maririme and Suatainable Culture, BRIN, Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: novita_idje@yahoo.co.id
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Erlin Novita Idje Djami
Available Online 27 June 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_61How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Artifacts; Period; Trade; in Papua
Abstract

The study of prehistoric trading in the Papua region is very interesting to do. The existence of various kinds of artifacts found that were not sourced or not made in the Papua region, is thought to have existed as a result of past trading activities. Archaeological evidence shows that trade in the Southeast Asia - Pacific region has occurred since prehistoric times, namely the late Pleistocene to 3500 BP at the Bukit Tengkorak site, Sabah, Malaysia with evidence of obsidian findings from Talaud and also from Talasea in Melanesia. In Papua, based on the findings of sea shells at the Togece Cave site in the central highlands, it is clear that local exchanges have occurred since 6000 years ago. Then after the arrival of Austronesian speakers in the Papua region, exchanges became more widespread with various evidences down to historical times. In this paper we try to describe a number of archaeological data in the Papua region which are considered as evidence of past exchanges, starting from the Pre-Austronesian, Early Austronesian and Early Metal periods, as well as Ethnohistorical data and Ethnoarchaeological data as data used to describe a possibility of ways and forms of exchange that may have occurred in prehistoric times.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Linguistics and Cultural (ICLC 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
27 June 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_61
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-070-1_61How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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