mid-Holocene

LEFT The burial found in Gua Makpan, a cave on Alor Island, is the first child burial from the early mid

Rare child burial in Indonesia

A sub-adult burial dating to the early-mid Holocene, c.8000 BP, has been found in Makpan Cave on Alor Island, south-eastern Indonesia. To date, only a few complete pre-Neolithic burials have been found in Island South-east Asia, despite the region’s vast…