A Description and Classification of Earthenware Sherds Excavated from Gua Tupak, Bau, Sarawak
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Nicholas Gani, Stephen Chia, Universiti Sains Malaysia · The Sarawak Museum Journal · 2012
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.