Foraging-farming transitions at the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo

Authors

Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge
Llindsay Lloyd-Smith, University of Cambridge
Huw Barton, University of Leicester
Franca Cole, University of Cambridge
Chris Hunt, Queen's University - Belfast
Philip J. Piper, University of the Philippines
Ryan Rabett, University of Cambridge
Victor Paz, University of the Philippines
Katherine A. Szabo, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

42755

Publication Details

Barker, G., Lloyd-Smith, L., Barton, H., Cole, F., Hunt, C., Piper, P. J., Rabett, R., Paz, V. & Szabo, K. (2011). Foraging-farming transitions at the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo. Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology, 85 (328), 492-509.

Abstract

The Niah Caves in Sarawak, Borneo, have captured evidence for people and economies of 8000 and 4000 years ago. Although not continuous on this site, these open two windows on to life at the cultural turning point, broadly equivalent to the transition fromMesolithic to Neolithic. They have much in common, inferring that the occupants, perhaps belonging to an older maritime dispersal, had a choosy appetite for the Neolithic package.

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