Ref ID:	37927
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Tom Harrison
Title:	The Great Cave of Niah: A Preliminary Report on Bornean Prehistory
Date:	November 1957
Source:	Man
Publisher:	Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
DOI:	10.2307/2795279
Abstract:	No systematic archaeology was undertaken in Borneo until I949, when the Sarawak Museum began operations on a small scale. Hitherto, the meagre information about stone-age sequences and early human activity in the island depended entirely on collections of stone tools and other objects not found in situ. Misunderstandings readily arise from deductions based on such data, among people much on the move in recent centuries and carrying stone tools latterly as sacred talismans, of supposed thunderbolt origin.
Volume:	57
Page Start:	161
Page End:	166