Juliette M. Pasveer 
Djief Hunters, 26, 000 Years of Rainforest Exploitation on the Bird’s Head of Papua, Indonesia 
Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia, volume 17

Two prehistoric cave sites on the Bird’s Head of western New Guinea provide a detailed narrative of 26, 000 years of human occupation of this area. During Late Pleistocene times, lower temperatures allowed a suite of montane animal species to descend onto the lowland Ayamaru Plateau. When the montane fauna receded during the subsequent climatic amel