SABAH SOCIETY JOU

VOLUME IV 1969-1970

The Prehistory of S
BY TOM AND BARBARA HARRI

SABAH SOCIETY

KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, MALAYSI

 CONTENTS
LIST OF PLATES
PLATE ACKNOWLEDGEME:--.TS
LIST OF FIGURES
FOREWORD BY THE PATRON
HIS E~CELLENCY, YAKG DI-PERTUA NEGARA, SABAH, MAL
AUTHORS' PREFACE AND POST-PREFACE
EDITOR'S PREFACE

PART A: BACKGROUND
I. The Ancient Setting:
I. The Scope of Prehistory.

2. The Scope of Sabah in Borneo.

3. The Span of Time: Before and After
4. Vokanic Activity: Api Api and Datu A
S. The Name "Sabah".
6. Hard Stone--or None.
7. A Note on Tektites.
8. A Note on Negritos ("Pygmies").
II. The Present Outline (with a Prehistoric
I. Sabah Sites and Artifacts.
2. Prehistoric Sequences in Sabah.
3. Down the Calendar: Key "Dates" for
4. Over Land and Scas: What went on a
S. From Emperor to Elephant: Five Fam

PART B: SITES-THE PLACES OF PREHISTORY

m. The Caves:
I. Birds-nests and Cave Exploration.
2. Gomantong Caves.
3. Caves of the Lower Kinabatangan Riv
4. Caves on the Middle Reaches of the Ki
5. Pintasan and the Sandstone Caves of
6. The Kinabatangan above Kuamut:
Sungai Country.
 9. Madai Caves; Earliest Evidence of Sabah Prehistory.
10. Baturong Caves beyond Madai.

I I. Interior Caves.
12. Conclusion on Caves.

IV. The Offshore Islands: 117

I. Bird Island and the late Stone Age.

2. Eno Island-a Ming Battleground?

3. Usukan Island and the "Sea Nomads".

V. The Megalithic Belt: 130

I. Ancient Roots of Sahah's Megalithic.

2. A Survey of Sabah's Megalithic: 30 Miles of Menhirs.

3. Megalithic Usage: Kadazan Information and Folk Back

ground.
4. Megalithic Styles, Sizes, Sources.
S. Transferences and "Substitutes" for Stone, in '\Tood.

PART C: ARTIFACTS
VI. Stone Tools: 149
I. Journey into Stone.

2. Early Stone Tool Evidence in Sabah.

3. Agop Atas, Madai, and its Stones: Sabah's Earliest

Prehistoric "Date" (8820 B.C.).
4. Open Site, Tomanggong Estate, Lower Segama.
5- Early Sabah Stone Tools compared with Palawan and
New Guinea.
6. Late Stone-age Tools; Polished Adzes, especially
"Trapezoidals".
7. Gouges.
8. Bark-beaters.
9. "Arrowheads".
10. IVlortars, Pounders, and Pot-Stones.

I I. Soft Tools.

12. Fire Strikers.

13 Late Sabah Stone Tools compared with Palawan.

 CONTEKTS

er. VII. Earthenware:

I
1. Pottery Background.
, d Fringe. 2. Earthenwares of the Neolithic Traditio
;abah Prehistory.
3. A Cross-Section through Neolithic-Ty
4. The Assemblage of Pusu Lumut, Tapa
5. "Turtle Ware".
6. Simpler Earthenwares of the Iron Age
7. Prehistoric Pots and their Persistence.
117
VIII. Metal: From Bronze Tools and other
Iron.
I. Bronze and nearly Bronze Age.

s". 2. The Excavated Bronze Axe and Cast-

3 Other Sabah Bronze Finds.
13 4. The Earliest Iron.
5. Gold.
6. Massive Iron-a Revolution in the Ra
Miles of Menhirs.
IX. Stonewares and Porcelain, from Chin
tion and Folk Back-
I. A Trade in Ceramics over Thirteen C
2. The Early Wares of the T'ang and Su
3. Ming Wares from Indochina and Chin
Stone, in Wood. 4. Ching Dynasty Chinese, Japanese and
mics-a later and lesser Trade.
X. Beads.
I. Prehistoric Beads: From Stone Age
149 Glass.
2. Pre-glass Beads.
3. G lass Beads.
Sabah's Earliest 4. The Bead Assemblage from Pusu Sam
5. A Note on Illustrating Beads.
rer Segama. PART D: BRIDGES FROM PREHISTORY
I
I with Palawan and XI. The Mahan Story.
1. Sabah's Oldest "Document".
Adzes, especially 2. The Origin Myth: Man-fruit, Girl-egg
3. Three Trends in the Folk-roots.
4. Idahan Identity and Suluk Propinquity
5- The Idahan Genealogy after Abdull
Doubts.
XII. So, into History.

APPENDICES
Chapter Notes.

:Vith Palawan. Bibliography.