Historic Maps and Archaeology as a Means of Understanding Late Precolonial Settlement in the Banda Islands - Asian Perspectives 41(1). The study uses European drawn maps dating from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, and archaeological data from four sites on the islands of Banda Naira, Banda Besar, and Pulau Ay dating from A.D. 500-1700.
Our own Amazon Princess - From Sydney Morning Herald, she was tall and strong and in her late 20s when she died about 18,000 years ago
Capt. Sedana Sails Ancient Trade Route - From The Jakarta Post, captain recently commanded the Borobudur Samudraraksa, a ship designed based on reliefs from the Borobudur Temple in Central Java, to retrace the cinnamon route taken by Indonesian merchants in the eighth century to sell spices to Africa.
Chandi Borobudur: A Monument of Mankind - A scholarly and up-to-date book on Borobudur, the magnificent and little known temple situated in the centre of Java, close to the Merapi and Merbabu volcanoes some forty kilometres from Yogyakarta.
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