Dr Sofia Samper Carro with one of more than 50,000 items found on Alor Island. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/ANU
Dr Sofia Samper Carro with one of more than 50,000 items found on Alor Island. Photo: Tracey Nearmy/ANU - The discovery of three anicent bodies on Indonesia's Alor Island tells new stories of the earliest humans in island Southeast Asia. If three ancient bodies buried in Indonesia could talk, researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) say they would tell stories of the earliest humans in island Southeast Asia. The discovery of the three bodies on Indonesia's Alor Island, dating from 7,500 to 12,000 years ago, sheds new light on burial practices and migration through the area. Author of a new paper published by the peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal PLOS One , Dr Sofia Samper Carro said the three burials are significant because the positioning of each body shows a different mortuary practice. Dr Samper Carro said this might relate to multiple migratory routes through the area from thousands of years ago. "Burials are very cultural through this period and represent waves of migration through the terminal Pleistocene to the Holocene period in Southeast Asia," Dr Samper Carro said.
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