Jayapura,People around the Jayapura District managed to find pottery and bronze axes are presumed to derive from prehistoric times in different locations.
Chairman of the Institute for Archaeological Research Team of Jayapura, Suroto Day, told AFP on Monday, admitted that the first findings of the pottery is presumed to derive from the period around 1500 BC (BC), was found in Kampung Kalkote, District East Sentani, Jayapura regency, when carried out excavations at region.
Pottery fragments were found in residents last Tuesday (27 / 4), then reported to the district and then reported to the Archaeological Institute of Jayapura.
From the research results revealed that pottery fragments dating back from the reference neulithikum and revealed a similar kind ever found in Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, in 1996.
Pottery types of "Lapita" was spreading in the Pacific region and the Bismark Archipelago.
While the "bronze hatchet" found Kwadeware, Waibu District, allegedly originating from the period 300 BC and comes from the Dong Son, the North Vietnamese.
According to Day, a bronze ax was brought race Austronesian people suspected of spreading in the northern coastal region of Papua.
However, Day said, axes are not submitted to the Institute for Archaeology, but are stored Ondoafi Kwadeware.
Besides these two relics, the researchers also managed to find a cave archaeological era in which there is Mesolithikum flake tool used for cutting and skinning of animals hunted.
Added, flake tool found in the region Ayapo, East and Baborongko Sentani district, District Ebungfau, it was around 10 thousand BC and comes from Austromelanesia race.
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