Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Borneo
dc.contributor.author | Lansing, J.S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jacobs, G.S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Downey, S.S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Norquest, P.K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cox, M.P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuhn, S.L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Miller, J.H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Malik, S.G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sudoyo, H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kusuma, P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-31T21:12:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-31T21:12:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lansing, J. S., Jacobs, G. S., Downey, S. S., Norquest, P. K., Cox, M. P., Kuhn, S. L., Miller, J. H., Malik, S. G., Sudoyo, H., & Kusuma, P. (2022). Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Borneo. Evolutionary Human Sciences. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2513-843X | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/ehs.2022.3 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/663839 | |
dc.description.abstract | Theories of early cooperation in human society often draw from a small sam- ple of ethnographic studies of surviving populations of hunter-gatherers, most of which are now sedentary. Borneo hunter-gatherers (Punan, Penan) have seldom figured in comparative research because of a decades-old controversy about whether they are the descendants of farmers who adopted a hunting and gathering way of life. In 2018 we began an ethnographic study of a group of still-nomadic hunter-gatherers who call themselves Punan Batu (Cave Punan). Our genetic analysis clearly indicates that they are very unlikely to be the de- scendants of neighbouring agriculturalists. They also preserve a song language that is unrelated to other languages of Borneo. Dispersed traveling groups of Punan Batu with fluid membership use message sticks to stay in contact, co- operate and share resources as they journey between rock shelters and forest camps. Message sticks were once widespread among nomadic Punan in Bor- neo, but have largely disappeared in sedentary Punan villages. Thus the small community of Punan Batu offers a rare glimpse of a hunting and gathering way of life that was once widespread in the forests of Borneo, where prosocial behaviour extended beyond the face-to-face community, facilitating successful collective adaptation to the diverse resources of Borneo's forests. Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Austronesia | |
dc.subject | Borneo | |
dc.subject | hunter-gatherers | |
dc.subject | prosocial behavior | |
dc.subject | song language | |
dc.title | Deep ancestry of collapsing networks of nomadic hunter-gatherers in Borneo | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.type | text | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona | |
dc.contributor.department | School of Anthropology, University of Arizona | |
dc.identifier.journal | Evolutionary Human Sciences | |
dc.description.note | Open access journal | |
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dc.eprint.version | Final published version | |
dc.source.journaltitle | Evolutionary Human Sciences | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-03-31T21:12:39Z |