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The distribution zone of jar burials extends southeast into Apo Kayan, and southwest to the Bidayuh and the peoples of the Melawi, closing in on the Barito groups who also practice this custom.

Conclusion to the Dayak Tribes

The distribution zone of jar burials extends southeast into Apo Kayan, and southwest to the Bidayuh and the peoples of the Melawi, closing in on the Barito groups who also practice this custom. The particulars of these burials, as well as the related vocabulary, further hint at a wide-spread inland culture based on Neolithic features. This culture, which we may call the Barito Culture after its major representatives, presumably consisted of scattered. loosely organized settlements relying on the cultivation of edible tubers and starch-yielding sago palms, and practicing burial in earthenware urns.

It likely maintained itself all over inland Borneo through the first millennium, as it was only after the more coast-bound populations had acquired the technologies of metals, allowing them to open the jungle, that slash-and-burn paddy cultivation could begin spreading to the interior, possibly not earlier than the 7th or 8th century. Iron and paddy then diffused slowly inland and may have reached the most isolated populations only one or two centuries ago. Some groups still retain pre-paddy economic orientations, and stone tools were still in use in 1950. The peoples of the Barito Culture still practice jar burials and probably developed new styles of funeral monuments in hardwood and stone after acquiring metals.

Although there is no conclusive data as yet, the diffusion of iron tools and rice cultivation to the interior may have been linked, at least in the northern half of the island, to the penetration of the Kayan. Their influence, however, never reached the southwestern regions, where both paddy and metals may have been introduced, at about the same period, to the interior Barito Culture peoples by other groups of late Austronesian settlers.

The Indigenous peoples: Major ethnic groups, Conclusion to the Dayak tribes.