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Liang Bua, an archaeological cave site on the Indonesian island of Flores, is best known as the type locality of the enigmatic hominin species, Homo floresiensis. Excavations at Liang Bua have recovered a very large number of vertebrate remains, including more than 230,000 bone …

The separate papers which make up this dissertation recount research findings from Tonggo, a municipality of thirteen villages located in south-central Flores, an island in Eastern Indonesia. Fieldwork was carried out between April 1997 and November 1998 and involved inland peop…