Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene

O’Connor, Sue; Vasco Oliveira, Nuno; D. Standish, Christopher; García-Diez, Marcos; Kealy, Shimona; Shipton, Ceri

doi:10.1017/s0959774320000323

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Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene

Published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal • Sep 29, 2020

Authors:

Sue O’Connor

Nuno Vasco Oliveira

Christopher D. Standish

Abstract

Engraving sites are rare in mainland and Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) where painted art dominates the prehistoric artistic record. Here we report two new engraving sites from the Tutuala region of Timor-Leste comprising mostly humanoid forms carved into speleothem columns in rock-shelters. Engraved ...

Subject

Pleistocene

Archaeology

Mainland

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