added by archaeologs An island of the Malay Archipelago, eastern Indonesia, possibly a staging point for early migrations to Australia. Timor and neighboring Flores had possible Pleistocene industries. There is some evidence of early Pleistocene land-bridges reaching the island from Java. The earliest archaeological dated remains come from caves in east Timor, where flake industries date from c 11,000 BC and Neolithic cultures appear after 3000 BC.