Suchergebnisse

Linking the early historic cultures of Southeast Asia to their prehistoric antecedents has, despite some decades of research, proved difficult for a number of reasons. Until the 1960s, this did not seem to be an issue for scholars of the region. For George Coedès, the region was simply occupied by diverse and backward ethnic and linguistic communities, cultivators using stone tools, or at best, people using bronze with poorly developed social organisations until impacted by the expanding Han peoples during the third century CE: 'There is very little direct information about the societies of South East Asia before they entered into contact with India and China.'

"Our experience of the present very largely depends oN our knowledge of the past." (Connerton 1989: 2)

IV. 1. Ian C. Glover (Institute of Archaeology, London) supplies a detailed, illustrated, report on the excavations which he undertook in 1969 and 1973 in a cave near to Maros (South Sulawesi), bringing to light a lithic tool complex, fragments of pottery and bones emanating roughtly from a period stretching from 8000 to 3000 B.C. It is a site important for the study of the prehistory of Sulawesi and, in a wider sense, for the prehistory of the whole of Eastern Indonesia.

3. I.C. Glover (University of London) memberikan dâftar judul - prasaran-prasaran yang dikemukakan di seminar tentang zaman purba Asia Tenggara yang berlangsung di London bulan September 1973.