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Rock art in Borneo suggests that, deep in a limestone cave in western Sarawak, the Bidayuh (Indigenous Hill tribe) drew images of resistance to frontier violence in the 1600s and 1800s

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Rock art and frontier conflict in Southeast Asia: Insights from direct radiocarbon ages for the large human figures of Gua Sireh, Sarawak

image: Digital tracings of the two large human figures dated in this study. view more 

Credit: Huntley et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Rock art in Borneo suggests that, deep in a limestone cave in western Sarawak, the Bidayuh (Indigenous Hill tribe) drew images of resistance to frontier violence in the 1600s and 1800s

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0288902

Article Title: Rock art and frontier conflict in Southeast Asia: Insights from direct radiocarbon ages for the large human figures of Gua Sireh, Sarawak

Author Countries: Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia

Funding: PT Australian Research Council Grant FL160100123 https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FL160100123. JH Australian Research Council Fellowship DE220100202 https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE220100202. JH and AJ Griffith University's Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Talent Retention Program https://www.griffith.edu.au/office-vice-chancellor/university-executive#lee-smith. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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