Mahirta
Biographic Data
| ID | 2946559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahirta |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahirta |
| SIGNATURE | MAHIRTA |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitas Gadjah Mada |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2887-7077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Recovering a legend: The Wara Liang pottery assemblage and the origin story of Lamalera, Lembata, Indonesia
Studi Banding Pola Gerak Tari Kataga dengan Seni Gambar Cadas di Situs Tron Bon Lei, Alor, Nusa Tenggara Timur (Tinjauan Etno Arkeologi)
The rock art of the Tron Bon Lei Site, Alor, East Nusa Tenggara has unique form because it is depicted in anthropomorphic figures. The figure is depicted in a certain movement pose and has attributes in the form of traditional clothing and weapons. Kataga dance is a traditional dance that was previously performed in death rituals after war in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. This article discusses the form of the anthropomorphic figures of the Tron Bon…
Menelisik Tanda Nitik pada Batik
This research aims to explore the background knowledge and way of thinking of the people who still continue to make batik with nitik motifs in Trimulyo Bantul Village, Yogyakarta. The characteristic of nitik motifs is geometric motifs with dots (squares), lines, curves, ovals, ellipses, and repetition in simple to complex forms. How to research qualitative methods with an ethnographic approach. The result is that the nitik decorative art pattern …
Sequins from the sea: Nautilus shell bead technology at Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia
One defining characteristic of Homo sapiens is the production and use of personal ornamentation. Evidence from Africa and western Eurasia has dominated discussion, but a growing number of finds directs attention towards Island Southeast Asia. In this article, the authors report on an assemblage of Nautilus shell beads from the Indonesian cave site of Makpan, Alor Island. The highly standardised forms, mostly with two perforations, and evidence of…
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia
Recent discovery of painted rock art on Wetang Island in the Babar Island group, Maluku Province, Indonesia, reflects the central place of boats in the daily lives of island peoples, as well as their paramount ritual and symbolic role in Maluku, and more broadly across Island Southeast Asia. In addition to boats, the Wetang sites contain images of domestic animals, as well as a unique image of an apparent macropod (a marsupial mammal of the famil…
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia
While fishhook technology is currently known to date back to ca. 22,000 cal. BP, almost all Pleistocene-aged assemblages consist of less than 10 artifacts, restricting the ability of archaeologists to reconstruct the technology. Excavations at Makpan Cave on Alor Island (Indonesia), however, has recovered an extensive assemblage of marine shell material culture, including an unprecedented number of fishhook artifacts. Here we describe 214 jabbing…
The rock art of Kisar Island, Indonesia: A small island with a wealth and diversity of artistic expression
We report 40 recently discovered rock art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and painted art in other islands of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. Predominantly painted, the art can be broadly divided into three categories: 1) small figurative motifs including humans, animals, boats and items of material culture, 2) a range of geometrics, both curvilinear and rectilinear, and 3) hand and ar…
Kisar, a small island participant in an extensive maritime obsidian network in the Wallacean Archipelago
Human foraging responses to climate change; Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter on Kisar Island
This study explores prehistoric human subsistence adaptations within the context of changing marine and terrestrial environments on the tiny Island of Kisar, beginning during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition around 15,000 years ago (ka). We use zooarchaeological data on faunal remains (vertebrates and invertebrates) recovered from Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) in temporal relationship to climate data from Flores to document prehistoric h…
Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
Kisar and the Archaeology of Small Islands in the Wallacean Archipelago
The occupation of small islands presents particular challenges for people largely related to limited terrestrial resources and susceptibility to natural disasters. Nevertheless, the challenges and risks inherent in maintaining stable populations on small islands can be offset or overcome through the use of maritime technologies and exchange networks. The archaeology of Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) on Kisar Island in the Wallacean Archipela…
Specialised lithic technology of terminal Pleistocene maritime peoples of Wallacea
Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art of Timor-Leste and Kisar Island, Island Southeast Asia
Painted rock art occurs throughout the islands of the Western Pacific and has previously been argued to have motif and design elements in common, indicating that it was created within the context of a shared symbolic system. Here we report five new painted rock-art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and the painted art corpus in Timor-Leste, the independent nation that forms the eastern…
New engraving finds in Alor Island, Indonesia extend known distribution of engravings in Oceania
Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia
We report on tetrapod (Reptilia, Amphibia, Mammalia, Aves) vertebrates recovered during excavations at Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the south coast of Alor Island, eastern Indonesia. These include both archaeological specimens recovered from a 1 m2 test pit dating from ∼21 kya cal BP to the late Holocene, and a modern eastern barn owl deposit recovered nearby. To discern between the depositional processes that accumulated the small numbers of micr…
Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia
Late Pleistocene/early Holocene maritime interaction in Southeastern Indonesia – Timor Leste
Makna Simbolis Batik Pada Masyarakat Jawa Kuna
This research aims to analyze symbolic meaning of batik in the ancient Javanese society. Next, it is also analyze whether the existence of batik can describe cultures in contemporary society. The research uses historical method in order to obtain field data and facts. Because of the required data consist of inscription which contains of sîma area in the Ancient Mataram Kingdom era made approximately in IX-XV M, so those data are collected either …
Stone Technology and the Chronology of Human Occupation on Rote, Sawu and Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Some characteristics of stone technology in the three outer arc islands of Nusa Tenggara during several phases of human occupation are examined. The data derive mainly from the results of my excavations on Rote and Sawu, that are compared with the results of earlier excavations in East Timor by Ian Glover. There is an indication that stone technology in the region changed entering the last glacial maximum, as indicated by the disappearance of lar…
[Ceramics and Obsidian in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania] the Development of the Mare Pottery Tradition in the Northern Moluccas
Kisar and the Archaeology of Small Islands in the Wallacean Archipelago
The occupation of small islands presents particular challenges for people largely related to limited terrestrial resources and susceptibility to natural disasters. Nevertheless, the challenges and risks inherent in maintaining stable populations on small islands can be offset or overcome through the use of maritime technologies and exchange networks. The archaeology of Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) on Kisar Island in the Wallacean Archipela…
Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia
We report on tetrapod (Reptilia, Amphibia, Mammalia, Aves) vertebrates recovered during excavations at Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the south coast of Alor Island, eastern Indonesia. These include both archaeological specimens recovered from a 1 m2 test pit dating from ∼21 kya cal BP to the late Holocene, and a modern eastern barn owl deposit recovered nearby. To discern between the depositional processes that accumulated the small numbers of micr…
Late Pleistocene/early Holocene maritime interaction in Southeastern Indonesia – Timor Leste
Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia
While fishhook technology is currently known to date back to ca. 22,000 cal. BP, almost all Pleistocene-aged assemblages consist of less than 10 artifacts, restricting the ability of archaeologists to reconstruct the technology. Excavations at Makpan Cave on Alor Island (Indonesia), however, has recovered an extensive assemblage of marine shell material culture, including an unprecedented number of fishhook artifacts. Here we describe 214 jabbing…
Human foraging responses to climate change; Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter on Kisar Island
This study explores prehistoric human subsistence adaptations within the context of changing marine and terrestrial environments on the tiny Island of Kisar, beginning during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition around 15,000 years ago (ka). We use zooarchaeological data on faunal remains (vertebrates and invertebrates) recovered from Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) in temporal relationship to climate data from Flores to document prehistoric h…
Specialised lithic technology of terminal Pleistocene maritime peoples of Wallacea
Sequins from the sea: Nautilus shell bead technology at Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia
One defining characteristic of Homo sapiens is the production and use of personal ornamentation. Evidence from Africa and western Eurasia has dominated discussion, but a growing number of finds directs attention towards Island Southeast Asia. In this article, the authors report on an assemblage of Nautilus shell beads from the Indonesian cave site of Makpan, Alor Island. The highly standardised forms, mostly with two perforations, and evidence of…
Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art of Timor-Leste and Kisar Island, Island Southeast Asia
Painted rock art occurs throughout the islands of the Western Pacific and has previously been argued to have motif and design elements in common, indicating that it was created within the context of a shared symbolic system. Here we report five new painted rock-art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and the painted art corpus in Timor-Leste, the independent nation that forms the eastern…
Kisar, a small island participant in an extensive maritime obsidian network in the Wallacean Archipelago
New engraving finds in Alor Island, Indonesia extend known distribution of engravings in Oceania
The rock art of Kisar Island, Indonesia: A small island with a wealth and diversity of artistic expression
We report 40 recently discovered rock art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and painted art in other islands of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. Predominantly painted, the art can be broadly divided into three categories: 1) small figurative motifs including humans, animals, boats and items of material culture, 2) a range of geometrics, both curvilinear and rectilinear, and 3) hand and ar…
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia
Recent discovery of painted rock art on Wetang Island in the Babar Island group, Maluku Province, Indonesia, reflects the central place of boats in the daily lives of island peoples, as well as their paramount ritual and symbolic role in Maluku, and more broadly across Island Southeast Asia. In addition to boats, the Wetang sites contain images of domestic animals, as well as a unique image of an apparent macropod (a marsupial mammal of the famil…
Stone Technology and the Chronology of Human Occupation on Rote, Sawu and Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Some characteristics of stone technology in the three outer arc islands of Nusa Tenggara during several phases of human occupation are examined. The data derive mainly from the results of my excavations on Rote and Sawu, that are compared with the results of earlier excavations in East Timor by Ian Glover. There is an indication that stone technology in the region changed entering the last glacial maximum, as indicated by the disappearance of lar…
[Ceramics and Obsidian in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania] the Development of the Mare Pottery Tradition in the Northern Moluccas
Stone Technology and the Chronology of Human Occupation on Rote, Sawu and Timor, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia
Some characteristics of stone technology in the three outer arc islands of Nusa Tenggara during several phases of human occupation are examined. The data derive mainly from the results of my excavations on Rote and Sawu, that are compared with the results of earlier excavations in East Timor by Ian Glover. There is an indication that stone technology in the region changed entering the last glacial maximum, as indicated by the disappearance of lar…
Late Pleistocene/early Holocene maritime interaction in Southeastern Indonesia – Timor Leste
Makna Simbolis Batik Pada Masyarakat Jawa Kuna
This research aims to analyze symbolic meaning of batik in the ancient Javanese society. Next, it is also analyze whether the existence of batik can describe cultures in contemporary society. The research uses historical method in order to obtain field data and facts. Because of the required data consist of inscription which contains of sîma area in the Ancient Mataram Kingdom era made approximately in IX-XV M, so those data are collected either …
New engraving finds in Alor Island, Indonesia extend known distribution of engravings in Oceania
Human Palaeoecological Interactions and Owl Roosting at Tron Bon Lei, Alor Island, Eastern Indonesia
We report on tetrapod (Reptilia, Amphibia, Mammalia, Aves) vertebrates recovered during excavations at Tron Bon Lei rockshelter on the south coast of Alor Island, eastern Indonesia. These include both archaeological specimens recovered from a 1 m2 test pit dating from ∼21 kya cal BP to the late Holocene, and a modern eastern barn owl deposit recovered nearby. To discern between the depositional processes that accumulated the small numbers of micr…
Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia
Kisar and the Archaeology of Small Islands in the Wallacean Archipelago
The occupation of small islands presents particular challenges for people largely related to limited terrestrial resources and susceptibility to natural disasters. Nevertheless, the challenges and risks inherent in maintaining stable populations on small islands can be offset or overcome through the use of maritime technologies and exchange networks. The archaeology of Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) on Kisar Island in the Wallacean Archipela…
Specialised lithic technology of terminal Pleistocene maritime peoples of Wallacea
Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art of Timor-Leste and Kisar Island, Island Southeast Asia
Painted rock art occurs throughout the islands of the Western Pacific and has previously been argued to have motif and design elements in common, indicating that it was created within the context of a shared symbolic system. Here we report five new painted rock-art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and the painted art corpus in Timor-Leste, the independent nation that forms the eastern…
Kisar, a small island participant in an extensive maritime obsidian network in the Wallacean Archipelago
Human foraging responses to climate change; Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter on Kisar Island
This study explores prehistoric human subsistence adaptations within the context of changing marine and terrestrial environments on the tiny Island of Kisar, beginning during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition around 15,000 years ago (ka). We use zooarchaeological data on faunal remains (vertebrates and invertebrates) recovered from Here Sorot Entapa rockshelter (HSE) in temporal relationship to climate data from Flores to document prehistoric h…
Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia
The rock art of Kisar Island, Indonesia: A small island with a wealth and diversity of artistic expression
We report 40 recently discovered rock art sites from Kisar Island in eastern Indonesia and investigate the commonalities between this art and painted art in other islands of Indonesia and in Timor-Leste. Predominantly painted, the art can be broadly divided into three categories: 1) small figurative motifs including humans, animals, boats and items of material culture, 2) a range of geometrics, both curvilinear and rectilinear, and 3) hand and ar…
Fishhooks, Lures, and Sinkers: Intensive Manufacture of Marine Technology from the Terminal Pleistocene at Makpan Cave, Alor Island, Indonesia
While fishhook technology is currently known to date back to ca. 22,000 cal. BP, almost all Pleistocene-aged assemblages consist of less than 10 artifacts, restricting the ability of archaeologists to reconstruct the technology. Excavations at Makpan Cave on Alor Island (Indonesia), however, has recovered an extensive assemblage of marine shell material culture, including an unprecedented number of fishhook artifacts. Here we describe 214 jabbing…
Sailing the deep blue sea: The rock art of Wetang Island, Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia
Recent discovery of painted rock art on Wetang Island in the Babar Island group, Maluku Province, Indonesia, reflects the central place of boats in the daily lives of island peoples, as well as their paramount ritual and symbolic role in Maluku, and more broadly across Island Southeast Asia. In addition to boats, the Wetang sites contain images of domestic animals, as well as a unique image of an apparent macropod (a marsupial mammal of the famil…
Sequins from the sea: Nautilus shell bead technology at Makpan, Alor Island, Indonesia
One defining characteristic of Homo sapiens is the production and use of personal ornamentation. Evidence from Africa and western Eurasia has dominated discussion, but a growing number of finds directs attention towards Island Southeast Asia. In this article, the authors report on an assemblage of Nautilus shell beads from the Indonesian cave site of Makpan, Alor Island. The highly standardised forms, mostly with two perforations, and evidence of…
Studi Banding Pola Gerak Tari Kataga dengan Seni Gambar Cadas di Situs Tron Bon Lei, Alor, Nusa Tenggara Timur (Tinjauan Etno Arkeologi)
The rock art of the Tron Bon Lei Site, Alor, East Nusa Tenggara has unique form because it is depicted in anthropomorphic figures. The figure is depicted in a certain movement pose and has attributes in the form of traditional clothing and weapons. Kataga dance is a traditional dance that was previously performed in death rituals after war in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. This article discusses the form of the anthropomorphic figures of the Tron Bon…
Menelisik Tanda Nitik pada Batik
This research aims to explore the background knowledge and way of thinking of the people who still continue to make batik with nitik motifs in Trimulyo Bantul Village, Yogyakarta. The characteristic of nitik motifs is geometric motifs with dots (squares), lines, curves, ovals, ellipses, and repetition in simple to complex forms. How to research qualitative methods with an ethnographic approach. The result is that the nitik decorative art pattern …
Recovering a legend: The Wara Liang pottery assemblage and the origin story of Lamalera, Lembata, Indonesia
Archaeology (17 works) · Geography (16 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Pleistocene (9 works) · Geology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · History (6 works) · Paleontology (6 works)