Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia; Centre d'Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueològic de la Prehistòria, Facultat de Lletres-Edifici B, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, Australia.
J Hum Evol. 2019 Sep;134:102638. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.07.002. Epub 2019 Aug 1.
The migration of anatomically modern humans (AMH) from Africa to every inhabitable continent included their dispersal through Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) to Australia. Significantly, this involved overwater dispersal through the Lesser Sunda Islands between Sunda (continental Southeast Asia) and Sahul (Australia and New Guinea). However, the timing and direction of this movement is still debated. Here, we report on human skeletal material recovered from excavations at two rockshelters, known locally as Tron Bon Lei, on Alor Island, Indonesia. The remains, dated to the Late Pleistocene, are the first anatomically modern human remains recovered in Wallacea dated to this period and are associated with cultural material demonstrating intentional burial. The human remains from Tron Bon Lei represent a population osteometrically distinct from Late Pleistocene Sunda and Sahul AMH. Instead, morphometrically, they appear more similar to Holocene populations in the Lesser Sundas. Thus, they may represent the remains of a population originally from Sunda whose Lesser Sunda Island descendants survived into the Holocene.
现代人（AMH）从非洲迁移到每一个可居住的大陆，包括通过印度尼西亚东南岛屿（ISEA）扩散到澳大利亚。重要的是，这涉及到通过巽他群岛（东南亚大陆）和萨胡尔（澳大利亚和新几内亚）之间的小巽他群岛进行的跨海扩散。然而，这种迁徙的时间和方向仍存在争议。在这里，我们报告了从印度尼西亚阿洛岛的两个名为特龙博莱的岩石庇护所挖掘中回收的人类骨骼材料。这些可追溯到更新世晚期的遗骸是在华莱士地区发现的第一批可追溯到这个时期的解剖学上的现代人类遗骸，与展示有意埋葬的文化材料有关。特龙博莱的人类遗骸代表了一个在骨骼测量学上与更新世晚期巽他和萨胡尔 AMH 不同的人群。相反，从形态学上看，它们与小巽他群岛的全新世人口更为相似。因此，它们可能代表了一个最初来自巽他群岛的人群的遗骸，其小巽他群岛的后代在全新世幸存了下来。
