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For archaeologists, Celebes has been known as a cultural melting point in the past. Therefore, archeological remains were found and scattered almost throughout in the celebes region, including Southeast celebes. When viewed from its landscape, Southeast Celebes consists of karst area arrangement that has the potential to be used and lived by the society in the past. The identification of archeological remains in Southeast Celebes will be presented to show the past civilization in this region. At the present that area consists of the administrative regions of Konawe, Kolaka, Muna and Buton. The archeological remains in thats area can be the one of the bases of reference to assembling local identities in Southeast Celebes. Because of that, very important to examine the role of archaelogical remains to reconstruct the past to assemble the local identity of the community for the present and the future. The conclusion is that archeological remains must be an important part to formulating local identities.