A Description and Classification of Earthenware Sherds Excavated from Gua Tupak, Bau, Sarawak.


 

THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL
VOL LXX NO.91 DECEMBER 2012

 
 
Title : 
A Description and Classification of Earthenware Sherds Excavated from Gua Tupak, Bau, Sarawak.

Author : 
Nicholas Gani and Stephen Chia

Abstract:
Archaeological excavations were carried out Gua Tupak, Bau, Sarawak by a research team from the Centre for Global Archaeological Research, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang and the Sarawak Museum Department, Kuching over a period of three weeks in February and March 2008. These excavations formed the basis of the lead author’s postgraduate study and a preliminary report on the excavations had been published (Gani et al., 2009). Briefly, the excavations yielded various types of artefacts such as shell remains, animal bones, earthenwares, stonewares and stone artefacts (Fig. 1). This article, however, discusses only the classification and the distributions of earthenware sherds excavated from Gua Tupak

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61507/smj22-2012-QQXZ-10


How to cite:
Nicholas Gani and Stephen Chia. (2012). A Description and Classification of Earthenware Sherds Excavated from Gua Tupak, Bau, Sarawak. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXX (91): 161-182

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