The late stone age in eastern Indonesia

Abstract

By eastern Indonesia I refer to the islands east of Java, Bali and Kalimantan, south of the Philippines and west of New Guinea (fig. i). This is the biogeographical region of Wallacea, of transition between Asia and Australia. In environment and relief the area is complex and varied for it includes some fifty large and many hundreds of small islands spread across an area of sea roughly i,7oo km. sq., has a land area of about 384,000 sq. km., and a present population of about 12 million. Since within this area we have reason*