Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste

Sally Brockwell; Sue O’Connor; Jack N. Fenner; Andrew McWilliam; Noel Amano; Philip J. Piper; David Bulbeck; Mirani Litster; Rose Whitau; Jack O’Connor-Veth; Tim Maloney; Judith Cameron; Richard C. Willan; William R. Dickinson

Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste

Sally Brockwell, Sue O’Connor, Jack N. Fenner, Andrew McWilliam, Noel Amano, Philip J. Piper, David Bulbeck, Mirani Litster, Rose Whitau, Jack O’Connor-Veth, Tim Maloney, Judith Cameron, Richard C. Willan, William R. Dickinson

Western Sydney University

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This chapter explores the archaeology and ethnohistory of one of the distinctive fortified settlements in the eastern part of Timor-Leste. In 2009, a team from The Australian National University (ANU), together with local people, partially excavated the site of Vasino, located close to the north coast of Timor-Leste, above the modern village of Moro-Parlamento (Figure 4.1). The site had been fortified with large stone walls and the aim was to provide more data on when, how and why these fortifications were used in the region. Two related questions guided the research. First, when was the main period of fort construction initiated? Secondly, what were the prevailing environmental and social conditions of those times?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations
Editors	Sue O'Connor, Andrew McWilliam, Sally Brockwell
Place of Publication	Acton, A.C.T.
Publisher	ANU Press
Pages	67-100
Number of pages	34
ISBN (Electronic)	9781760463892
ISBN (Print)	9781760463885
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Timor-Leste
antiquities
excavations (archaeology)
fortification

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Brockwell, S., O’Connor, S., Fenner, J. N., McWilliam, A., Amano, N., Piper, P. J., Bulbeck, D., Litster, M., Whitau, R., O’Connor-Veth, J., Maloney, T., Cameron, J., Willan, R. C., & Dickinson, W. R. (2020). Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste. In S. O'Connor, A. McWilliam, & S. Brockwell (Eds.), Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations (pp. 67-100). ANU Press.

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Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste. / Brockwell, Sally; O’Connor, Sue; Fenner, Jack N. et al.
Forts and Fortification in Wallacea: Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations. ed. / Sue O'Connor; Andrew McWilliam; Sally Brockwell. Acton, A.C.T.: ANU Press, 2020. p. 67-100.

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