The 'cultured rainforests' of Borneo

G Barker, C Hunt, H Barton, C Gosden, S Jones… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Borneo has a 50,000-year record of Homo sapiens' interactions with rainforest on
the coastal lowlands assembled especially by the interdisciplinary investigation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene landscape intervention and plant food production strategies in island and mainland Southeast Asia

CO Hunt, RJ Rabett - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2014 - Elsevier
In the areas adjacent to the drowned Pleistocene continent of Sunda–present-day Mainland
and Island SE Asia–the Austronesian Hypothesis of a diaspora of rice cultivators from …

Phytolith and diatom evidence for rice exploitation and environmental changes during the early mid-Holocene in the Yangtze Delta

X Zuo, H Lu, Z Li, B Song, D Xu, Y Zou, C Wang… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Using phytolith analysis from a well-dated and high-resolution sediment sequence in the
apex of northern Yangtze Delta, we investigate environmental changes, the rise and decline …

Microfossil analysis of dental calculus and isotopic measurements reveal the complexity of human-plant dietary relationships in Late Bronze Age Yunnan

T Wang, D Wei, Z Jiang, X Xia, Y Wu, Z Han… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
In combination with published archaeobotanical data, a detailed paleodietary reconstruction
is performed here on human teeth (n= 19) using starch grain and phytolith analysis of dental …

The cultural antiquity of rainforests: Human–plant associations during the mid-late Holocene in the interior highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

SE Jones, H Barton, CO Hunt, M Janowski… - Quaternary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Rainforests are often described as the world's last virgin landscapes; however hunter–
gatherers may have been modifying these environments for over 50,000 years. Despite this …

A pollen morphology study from the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

SE Jones, KG Pearce - Palynology, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Despite the rich biodiversity of plants in the islands of southeast Asia, modern pollen
reference collections are still sparse for this part of the world. With only limited availability of …

A Late Pleistocene record of climate and environmental change from the northern and southern Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

SE Jones, CO Hunt, PJ Reimer - Journal of Quaternary Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A late Pleistocene vegetation record is presented, using multi‐proxy analysis
from three palaeochannels in the northern (Bario) and southern (Pa'Dalih) Kelabit Highlands …

Forest disturbance, arboriculture and the adoption of rice in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo

SE Jones, CO Hunt, H Barton, CJ Lentfer… - The …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Holocene vegetation records are presented from palaeochannels in the southern Kelabit
Highlands, at Pa'Dalih (PDH 212) and at Pa'Buda (BPG), and from a peat bog in the …

[PDF][PDF] The cylindrical stone adzes of Borneo

HBH Barton - From Field to Museum—Studies from Melanesia in …, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
This paper provides a descriptive review of a class of stone tools from the interior highlands
of Borneo that are formally defined in this paper as 'cylindrical stone adzes.'The implements …

Prey into kin: the cosmological role of the pig in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak

M Janowski - Anthropozoologica, 2021 - BioOne
In this article I explore the role of both the wild pig (baka) and the domesticated pig (berak)
among the Kelabit of Sarawak, focusing in particular on their pre-Christian cosmological …