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bead
Object Type
bead
Museum number
2000,1209.1076
Description
2 beads from the excavation site Ulu Leang 1.
Production date
1AD-1000AD
(circa, possibly)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Ian Glover
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Ulu Leang 1
Materials
glass
(possibly)
ceramic
(possibly)
Curator's comments
Although these glass beads were found in Ulu Leang 1, Glover's 1976 article, p. 125 records that a few green and blue glass beads were found near the surface of Ulu Leang 1, and they are thought to have been derived from the upper cave, which is Ulu Leang 2.
Bibliographic references
Mulvaney and Soejono 1970 / The Australian-Indonesian Archaeological Expedition to Sulawesi
Glover 1976 / Ulu Leang Cave, Maros: A preliminary Sequence of Post-Pleistocene Cultural Development in South Sulawesi
Glover 1978 / Survey and excavation in the Maros district, South Sulawesi, Indonesia: the 1975 field season.
Glover 1979 / The effects of sink action on archaeological deposits in caves: an Indonesian example
Glover and Presland 1985 / Microliths in Indonesian Flaked Stone Industries
Bulbeck et al 2000 / Culture History of the Tolean of South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Bulbeck 2004 / Divided in space, united in time: The Holocene prehistory of South Sulawesi
Olsen and Glover 2004 / The bone industry of Ulu Leang 1 and Leang Burung 1 rockshelters, Sulawesi, Indonesia, in its regional context.
Location
Not on display
Acquisition date
2000
Acquisition notes
Donated in agreement with the Government of the Republic of Indonesia.
Department
Asia
Registration number
2000,1209.1076