Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human
and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in …

Abstract 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 …

This article explores the significance of stone in Southeast Asia, arguing that within the
animistic ontologies of the region stone is a central cosmological concept. Stone, for the …

Rainforests are often described as the world's last virgin landscapes; however hunter–
gatherers may have been modifying these environments for over 50,000 years. Despite this …

Until the early sixteenth century, the Sasak, indigenous people of Lombok, embraced a kind
of Hindu-Buddhist religion with traces of animistic beliefs. After the formal conversion to …

Despite the rich biodiversity of plants in the islands of southeast Asia, modern pollen
reference collections are still sparse for this part of the world. With only limited availability of …

The long history of archaeology in Malaysia over the past 170 years or so has witnessed a
gradual change from speculative-descriptive to scientific and interdisciplinary. It has also …

This paper provides a descriptive review of a class of stone tools from the interior highlands
of Borneo that are formally defined in this paper as 'cylindrical stone adzes.'The implements …

This thesis explores how a special group of objects, referred to as dragon jars in Southeast
Asia, cross cultural and geographical boundaries and acquire new meanings within different …

Innovation studies in construction focus on a desire to increase economics and efficiency at
a large scale. This has resulted in a skewed perspective that sees only major corporations …