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Fig. 6. Lamalera village, Southern Lembata 
Fig. 7. Fishermen from Lamalera on the hunt 
Fig. 8. Volcanoes tower over the horizon in the eastern Flores 
region 
has extensive migrations. The houses of the settlement are 
unfortunately not of traditional type anymore, although many 
other aspects of lifestyle still are kept traditional. There is 
no real agriculture, just gardens around the houses, where 
cotton and indigo for weaving and some herbs and fruits are 
cultivated. Agricultural produce is acquired every week on a 
barter market, where locals change dried fish for vegetables, 
rice and staple crops, which is brought by people from the 
villages on the nearby hills (orang gunung). 
FURTHER STEPS 
Apart from the sites mentioned above, further sites have to 
be selected. We are thinking of approximately 3 additional 
settlements, from Timor, Alor or other areas of Nusa Tenggara 
Timur. Until the start of the next field trip, which will start in 
February 2006, a simple, but effective GPS based mapping 
method has to be developed, which is well adapted to tropical 
fieldwork circumstances. The processing of architectural 
documentations has to be started and a computer simulated 
earthquake-stability investigation on typical buildings 
from the areas mentioned above has to be performed. Data 
from interviews conducted so far has to be compiled and 
archived. Data assessment from published resources (maps, 
satellite images, etc.) for the future GIS system will start this 
October. 
CONCLUSION 
Our project hasto perform two big tasks: One is the 
documentation of traditional architecture and settlement 
structures, the other is to get a better understanding for the 
interaction between human settlement and the surrounding 
ecosystem. The results of the analysis can be used to give 
advice to local people, which aspects of their traditional 
lifestyle they should keep, which ones they could alter, to 
deal with their land in a sustainable way. This in turn would 
give a better possibility to manage disasters, for which there 
is a big natural potential in Indonesia, but the effects of which 
will be worsened through a lack of settlement planning and 
extensive population growth. Our project should create a 
basis for a management tool and a better understanding on 
these topics, where cultural heritage and natural heritage are 
woven together within a delicate web. 
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