Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered

Aleese Barron; Ipoi Datan; Peter Bellwood; Rachel Wood; Dorian Q. Fuller; Tim Denham

doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.166

Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered

Aleese Barron^*, Ipoi Datan, Peter Bellwood, Rachel Wood, Dorian Q. Fuller, Tim Denham

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The earliest claim for domesticated rice in Island Southeast Asia (4960-3565 cal BP) derives from a single grain embedded in a ceramic sherd from Gua Sireh Cave, Borneo. In a first assessment of spikelet-base assemblages within pottery sherds using quantitative microCT analysis, the authors found no additional rice remains within this sherd to support the early date of rice farming; analysis of a more recent Gua Sireh sherd (1990-830 cal BP), however, indicates that 70 per cent of spikelet bases are from domesticated rice. This technique offers a high degree of contextual and temporal resolution for approaching organic-tempered ceramics as well-preserved archaeobotanical assemblages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1325-1336
Number of pages	12
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	94
Issue number	377
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.166
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2020

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