Talking Dead. New burials from Tron Bon Lei (Alor Island, Indonesia) inform on the evolution of mortuary practices from the terminal Pleistocene to the Holocene in Southeast Asia

• Sofia C. Samper-Carro ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sofia.samper@anu.edu.au

  Affiliations Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Centre d’Estudis del Patrimoni Arqueologic, Facultat de Lletres, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-4026

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• Sue O’Connor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9381-078X

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• Mahirta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mahirta, Shimona Kealy, Ceri Shipton

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departemen Arkeologi, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogjakarta, Indonesia

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• Shimona Kealy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mahirta, Shimona Kealy, Ceri Shipton

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Archaeology and Natural History, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0646-1313

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• Ceri Shipton

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mahirta, Shimona Kealy, Ceri Shipton

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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