The first modern humans at Niah, c. 50,000-35,000 years ago

Authors

Tim Reynolds, University of LondonFollow
Graeme Barker, University of CambridgeFollow
Huw Barton, University of Leicester
Gathorne Cranbrook, Great Glemham House, UK
Lucy Farr, University of CambridgeFollow
Chris Hunt, Queen's UniversityFollow
Lisa Kealhofer, Santa Clara University
Victor Paz, University of the Philippines
Alistair Pike, University of Southampton
Philip Piper, Australian National University
Ryan J. Rabett, University of Cambridge
Garry Rushworth, University of Bradford
Christopher Stimpson, University of Oxford
Katherine Szabo, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

90674

Publication Details

Reynolds, T., Barker, G., Barton, H., Cranbrook, G., Farr, L., Hunt, C., Kealhofer, L., Paz, V., Pike, A., Piper, P. J., Rabett, R. J., Rushworth, G., Stimpson, C. & Szabo, K. (2013). The first modern humans at Niah, c. 50,000-35,000 years ago. In G. Barker (Eds.), Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak: Volume 1 (pp. 135-172). United Kingdom: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Abstract

This chapter describes the evidence for the antiquity and character of initial human occupation at Niah. The chronological boundaries of the chapter are set by, on the one hand, the approximate age of the first main lithofacies in the West Mouth that was associated with human activity (Lithofacies 2, and that part of Lithofacies 2C interdigitated with it, as described in the previous chapter) and, on the other hand, the likely age of the mudflow (Lithofacies 3) that overwhelmed these earlier sediments.