Multidisciplinary project in Kalimantan Timur (Indonesia): first results and perspectives

Francois-Xavier Ricaut (1) , Oktaviana Adhi Agus (2) , Jean-Georges Ferrie (3) , Bambang Sugiyanto , Josette Sarel (4) , Sébastien Plutniak (5) , Antonio Guerreiro (6) , Claudio Tuniz (7) , Michel Grenet (8) , Bénédicte Voeltzel (4) , Budi Amuranto , Jean-Michel Chazine (9) , Bambang Sulistiyanto (10)

1 AMIS - Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse
2 Arkenas - Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Arkeologi Nasional
3 PACEA - De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
4 Inrap - Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives
5 LISST - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires
6 IrAsia - Institut de recherches Asiatiques
7 UniFI - Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence = Université de Florence
8 ESEP - Economies, sociétés et environnements préhistoriques
9 CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie
10 Balai Arkeologi, Banjarmasin

Island Southeast Asia has been the location of important archaeological discoveries regarding human evolution and recent human population history. Since 2003, a French-Indonesian archaeological research project has been developed in the karstic area of East Kalimantan (Indonesia), which has notably led to the discovery of caves with unique rock art paintings, dating back to at least the early Holocene (9900 years BP). A new multidisciplinary project was initiated in 2010, involving archaeological, anthropobiological and ethno-linguistic approaches, in order to document the past human occupations in this area.

Mots clés: Prehistoric cave; Prehistoric cave art; Austronesian studies; Borneol; Kalimantan Est

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Francois-Xavier Ricaut, Oktaviana Adhi Agus, Jean-Georges Ferrie, Bambang Sugiyanto, Josette Sarel, et al.. Multidisciplinary project in Kalimantan Timur (Indonesia): first results and perspectives. Seventh World Archaeological Congress, Jan 2013, Jordan, Jordan. . ⟨hal-02113251⟩