TY - JOUR
T1 - The ‘cultured rainforests’ of Borneo
AU - Barker, Graeme
A2 - Hunt, Chris
A2 - Barton, Huw
A2 - Gosdon, Chris
A2 - Jones, Sam
A2 - Lloyd-Smith, Lindsay
A2 - Farr, Lucy
A2 - O'Donnell, Shawn
N1 - The authors would like to thank the State Planning Unit of the Chief Minister's Department of Sarawak for the permit to undertake the Niah Caves and Kelabit Highlands fieldwork, and Sarawak Museum for its sponsorship and active support of both projects. The principal funding for the Niah Caves Project was provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (APN10872) and its successor the Arts and Humanities Research Council (APN12333, APN16175), and for the Cultured Rainforest Project by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (E5105741), with additional support from the Association of Southeast Asianists UK, the British Academy, the British Academy's Committee for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Natural Environment Research Council (Radiocarbon Facility); their support is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2017/8/20
Y1 - 2017/8/20
N2 - 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 archaeology and palaeoecology of the Niah Caves on the coastal plain of Sarawak (Barker et al., 2007; Barker, 2013). More recent work by many of the same team in the interior of Borneo, in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, has combined those approaches with ethnography and anthropology to investigate recent and present-day, as well as past, human-rainforest interactions. In combination, the two projects indicate that the present-day rainforests of Borneo are the product of a deep ecological history related to both natural factors such as climate change and cultural factors such as how different groups of people chose to extract their livelihoods from the forest, including in ways that do not have simple analogies with the subsistence activities of present-day rainforest foragers and farmers in Borneo.
AB - 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 archaeology and palaeoecology of the Niah Caves on the coastal plain of Sarawak (Barker et al., 2007; Barker, 2013). More recent work by many of the same team in the interior of Borneo, in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, has combined those approaches with ethnography and anthropology to investigate recent and present-day, as well as past, human-rainforest interactions. In combination, the two projects indicate that the present-day rainforests of Borneo are the product of a deep ecological history related to both natural factors such as climate change and cultural factors such as how different groups of people chose to extract their livelihoods from the forest, including in ways that do not have simple analogies with the subsistence activities of present-day rainforest foragers and farmers in Borneo.
KW - Biomass burning
KW - Niah caves
KW - Kelabit Highlands
KW - vegeculture rice agriculture
U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.018
DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.08.018
M3 - Article
VL - 448
SP - 44
EP - 61
JO - Quaternary International
JF - Quaternary International
SN - 1040-6182
ER -
