Rock Art, Burials, and Habitations: Caves in East Kalimantan

• Published in: Asian perspectives (Honolulu) Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 219 - 230
• Main Author: CHAZINE, JEAN-MICHEL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.04.2005; University of Hawaii Press
• Subjects: Animals; Antiquity; Archaeological surveys; Archaeology; Area studies; Asia; Asian studies; Authorship; Bones; Borneo; Burial; Cave-drawings; Cave-dwellings; Caves; Charcoal; Cliffs; Discovery and exploration; Excavations (Archaeology); Fieldwork; Foot; Funerals; Geological time; Historic artifacts; History; Human settlements; Indonesia; Kalimantan; Mortuary practice; Motifs; Pottery; Prehistoric caves; Rock art; Rock paintings; Rocks; Stencils; Asia; East Kalimantan Indonesia

This paper presents a brief summary of a program of study of the archaeology of caves and rock shelters in East Kalimantan, especially the results of recent fieldwork along the Marang River. The caves and rock shelters cluster into three groups in terms of their elevations in the karstic landscape a...