Adaptation to rainforest environments
Decorative symbols incised on bamboo hair combs worn by Negrito women serve as charms to protect against venomous reptiles and insects.
The prehistoric record in Malaysia enshrines the ancestry of two major rainforest hunting and gathering groups: the Negritos of the Malay Peninsula and the Punan/Penan of inland Sarawak. These two groups are quite different in biological ancestry and language, and they seem to indicate how quite varied trajectories in the past can give rise to very similar adaptations in the present.
- Information in the full article includes
- The Peninsular Hoabinhian economy
- Rainforest habitation theories
- Bornean rainforest habitations