Ref ID:	26810
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	O'Connor, Sue Mahirta, Carro, Sofía C. Samper Hawkins, Stuart Kealy, Shimona Louys, Julien Wood, Rachel
Title:	Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia
Date:	2017
Source:	Antiquity
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.186
Abstract:	Fish-hooks discovered among grave goods associated with an adult female burial at the Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the island of Alor in Indonesia are the first of their kind from a Pleistocene mortuary context in Southeast Asia. Many of the hooks are of a circular rotating design. Parallels found in various other prehistoric contexts around the globe indicate widespread cultural convergence. The association of the fish-hooks with a human burial, combined with the lack of alternative protein sources on the island, suggest that fishing was an important part of the cosmology of this community. The Tron Bon Lei burial represents the earliest-known example of a culture for whom fishing was clearly an important activity among both the living and the dead.
Date Created:	4/10/2018
Volume:	91
Number:	360
Page Start:	1451
Page End:	1468