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tiny flakes, remain. It is planned to concentrate on continuing down to deeper levels when we resume field work later in 1964.
2. West Mouth (b) rest of outer mouth-rich, undisturbed stone-age occupation in light area; stratified sequence from late neolithic down to full palaeolithic occupation; about 700 square feet completed.
3. West Mouth, (c) inner, half dark section not in general early use as occupation, but dense late Stone Age cemetery, and up to early Iron. Eighty burials so far exposed; most treated and left in site for fuller physical study.
4. Lobang Angin (“Wind Mouth") - a shelf of c.400 square feet high on cliff edge, fully occupied before the late Stone Age and back into the palaeolithic; excavations, half-done so far, will be completed.
5. Gan Kira (Traders Cave") — a smaller rockshelf near sea level, evidently a neolithic trading camp, which includes an apparent murder incident and scattered sub-surface skeletons (some beheaded). Fully excavated down to limestone bedrock (fossil oysters, O.gigas).
6. Lobang Tulang (“Caves of Bones")-cliff grottos full of jar and other secondary burials, mainly of the early birds' nest trade with China period (?900 - 1200 A.D.); bronze and other finds; completed.
7. Kain Hitam ("the Painted Cave")-a separate cave high in a limestone island, discovered by Barbara Harrisson in 1958; 200 feet of wall paintings above floor littered with "death ships" and an abundance of bone, beads, porcelain and stoneware sherds, etc. Evidently this was the centre of elaborate prehistoric funerary rites, related to those still extant in the Niah River (as filmed). C-14 dates on four "death ships" so far received give between 0 and 780 A.D.
Excavated in 200×5 foot square blocks correlated to wall paintings. A small section was left for a check-study in 1965.
8. Samti - a small rock shelter in an isolated corner of the Great Cave formation, which also held death ship remains.
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tiny flakes, remain. It is planned to concentrate on continuing down to deeper levels when we resume field work later in 1964.
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2. West Mouth (b) rest of outer mouth-rich, undisturbed stone-age occupation in light area; stratified sequence from late neolithic down to full palaeolithic occupation; about 700 square feet completed.
3. West Mouth, (c) inner, half dark section
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not in general
early use as occupation, but dense late Stone Age cemetery, and up to early Iron. Eighty burials so far exposed; most treated and left in site for fuller physical study.
4. Lobang Angin (“Wind Mouth") -
- a shelf of c.400 square feet high on cliff edge, fully occupied before the late Stone Age and back into the palaeolithic; excavations, half-done so far, will be completed.
5. Gan Kira (Traders Cave") — a smaller rockshelf near sea level, evidently a neolithic trading camp, which includes an apparent murder incident and scattered sub-surface skeletons (some beheaded). Fully excavated down to limestone bedrock (fossil oysters, O.gigas). 6. Lobang Tulang (“Caves of Bones")-cliff grottos full of jar and other secondary burials, mainly of the early birds' nest trade with China period (?900 - 1200 A.D.); bronze and other finds; completed.
7. Kain Hitam ("the Painted Cave")-a separate cave high in a limestone island, discovered by Barbara Harrisson in 1958; 200 feet of wall paintings above floor littered with "death ships" and an abundance of bone, beads, porcelain and stoneware sherds, etc. Evidently this was the centre of elaborate prehistoric funerary rites, related to those still extant in the Niah River (as filmed). C-14 dates on four "death ships" so far received give between 0 and 780 A.D.
Excavated in 200×5 foot square blocks correlated to wall paintings. A small section was left for a check-study in 1965.
8. Samti - a small rock shelter in an isolated corner of the Great Cave formation, which also held death ship remains.
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