ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors present a brief overview of range and variety of early bone tools from the region, and then concentrate on the material from Ulu Leang 1 and Leang Burung 1 rockshelters in South Sulawesi where over 150 bone tools were recovered from well-stratified contexts in dated deposits. In South Sulawesi, the so-called Toalean sites have produced the largest assemblages of bone tools of any of the Southeast Asian Late Stone Age cultures, and the Ulu Leang 1 rockshelter perhaps the largest number from any single site. The worked bone points from the Sulawesi sites of Ulu Leang 1 and Leang Burung 1 have been analysed by Olsen and are described in detail. Exploration of the Maros caves in 1969 by the joint Indonesian-Australian expedition under leadership of Soejono and Mulvaney was undertaken with the goals of examining sites of the Toalean culture, collecting samples for radiocarbon dating, and investigating possible prehistoric contacts between Sulawesi and Australia.
