Kalpataru
Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)

Burial System in Karakelang Island, Talaud Regency, North Sulawesi

Ipak Fahriani (Research Center for Prehistoric and History Archaeology)
Vivi Sandra Sari (Research Center for Prehistoric and History Archaeology)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2023

Abstract

Karakelang is an island which administratively located in Talaud Islands Regency, North Sulawesi. As one of the migration entrances of immigrants from the north of Indonesia islands, Talaud has become a quite wide area of prehistorical findings site dispersion and various activities that occurred in Talaud that provide the proof of civilization. One of the civilization heritages is burial system. This writing aims to explore the burial system in Karakelang Island in the past by looking at the site dispersion potential of occupancy area. The data were collected through survey and excavation. The research result shows that the collected occupancy sites in Karakelang reflect the burial activities in this area. The dispersion of occupancy site and burial system in Karakelang Island were parts of adaptation system of the people in Karakelang Island. It was mostly influenced by the natural resources that closely related to the developed local culture in Talaud.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

kalpataru

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Subject

Arts Humanities Environmental Science Physics Social Sciences

Description

KalpataruĀ is an open access and peer reviewed scientific publication on the prehistory of Southeast Asia and its surrounding areas with the scope of materials such as culture, humans, and environment during the prehistoric and proto historic periods. The perspectives from cross disciplines other ...