TY - JOUR
T1 - Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art of Timor-Leste and Kisar Island, Island Southeast Asia
AU - O'Connor, Sue
AU - Mahirta,
AU - Tanudirjo, Daud
AU - Ririmasse, Marlon
AU - Husni, Muhammad
AU - Kealy, Shimona
AU - Hawkins, Stuart
AU - Alifah,
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Painted rock art occurs throughout the islands of the Western Pacific and has previously been argued to have motif and design elements in common, indicating that it was created within the context of a shared symbolic system. Here we report five new painted rock-art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and the painted art corpus in Timor-Leste, the independent nation that forms the eastern part of the neighbouring island of Timor. We examine the motifs in the Kisar art and suggest that, rather than being Neolithic in age, some of the figurative motifs more likely have a Metal Age origin, which in this region places them within the last 2500 years.
AB - Painted rock art occurs throughout the islands of the Western Pacific and has previously been argued to have motif and design elements in common, indicating that it was created within the context of a shared symbolic system. Here we report five new painted rock-art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and the painted art corpus in Timor-Leste, the independent nation that forms the eastern part of the neighbouring island of Timor. We examine the motifs in the Kisar art and suggest that, rather than being Neolithic in age, some of the figurative motifs more likely have a Metal Age origin, which in this region places them within the last 2500 years.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0959774317000816
DO - 10.1017/S0959774317000816
M3 - Article
SN - 0959-7743
VL - 28
SP - 225
EP - 241
JO - Cambridge Archaeological Journal
JF - Cambridge Archaeological Journal
IS - 2
ER -