Conflict Over Natural Resources in South-East Asia and the Pacific.

The recent recognition of numerous small geological terranes in the Indo-Pacific region has revolutionised our understanding of geological and biogeographic processes. Most of these terranes rifted from Gondwana. The Shan-Thai terrane rifted from Australia in the Permian and collided with Indo-China in the Triassic. Parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan may have rifted from Australia in the Cretaceous and carried an angiosperm flora north. Other terranes, now dispersed in South-East Asia and in the Pacific were, at various times in the Cenozoic, part of the Australian continent. Faunal and floral mobilism to Fiji via the Solomons and Vanuatu was probably not difficult up to the late Miocene.

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Early Holocene shell fish hooks from Lene Hara Cave, East Timor establish complex fishing technology was in use in Island South East Asia five thousand years before Austronesian settlement

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x0011405x ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 79 (304) ◽

pp. 249-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Sue O’Connor ◽

Peter Veth

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

East Timor ◽

Early Holocene ◽

South East Asia ◽

The Pacific ◽

Fish Hook

Discovery of a well-stratified fish hook from a cave sequence on East Timor shows a fishing technology developed at least 5000 years before the Austronesian expansion through Island South East Asia and into the Pacific. The fish hook is fashioned from shell and has been radiocarbon dated to 9741 ± 60 b.p.

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South-East Asia and the Pacific Rim

10.18356/9789210059084c016 ◽

1998 ◽

pp. 212-236

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Pacific Rim ◽

South East Asia ◽

The Pacific

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The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae, Arachnura) in Australia and New Zealand

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.4706.1.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4706 (1) ◽

pp. 147-170

Author(s):

PEDRO DE S. CASTANHEIRA ◽

RAPHAEL K. DIDHAM ◽

COR J. VINK ◽

VOLKER W. FRAMENAU

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

East Asia ◽

Papua New Guinea ◽

New Guinea ◽

South East Asia ◽

Pacific Region ◽

Single Female ◽

South Eastern ◽

Nomen Dubium ◽

The Pacific

The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders in the genus Arachnura Vinson, 1863 (Araneidae Clerck, 1757) are revised for Australia and New Zealand. Arachnura higginsii (L. Koch, 1872) only occurs in Australia and A. feredayi (L. Koch, 1872) only in New Zealand. A single female collected in south-eastern Queensland (Australia) is here tentatively identified as A. melanura Simon, 1867, but it is doubtful that this species has established in Australia. Two juveniles from northern Queensland do not conform to the diagnoses of any of the above species and are illustrated pending a more thorough revision of the genus in South-East Asia and the Pacific region. An unidentified female from Westport (New Zealand) does not conform to the diagnoses of A. feredayi and A. higginsii, but is not described due to its poor preservation status. Arachnura caudatella Roewer, 1942 (replacement name for Epeira caudata Bradley, 1876), originally described from Hall Sound (Papua New Guinea) and repeatedly catalogued for Australia, is considered a nomen dubium.

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