2381/11605332.v2
Graeme Barker
Graeme
Barker
Chris Hunt
Chris
Hunt
Huw Barton
Huw
Barton
Chris Gosden
Chris
Gosden
Sam Jones
Sam
Jones
Lindsay Lloyd-Smith
Lindsay
Lloyd-Smith
Lucy Farr
Lucy
Farr
Borbala Nyiri
Borbala
Nyiri
Shawn O'Donnell
Shawn
O'Donnell
The 'cultured rainforests' of Borneo
University of Leicester
2020
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Geography, Physical
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Physical Geography
Geology
Biomass burning
Niah Caves
Kelabit highlands
Vegeculture rice agriculture
ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGE
LATE PLEISTOCENE
SOUTHEAST-ASIA
GREAT CAVE
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
KELABIT HIGHLANDS
WEST KALIMANTAN
EARLY HOLOCENE
MODERN HUMANS
HUMAN IMPACT
2020-03-25 16:05:19
Journal contribution
https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_cultured_rainforests_of_Borneo/11605332
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.