Tom Harrison
Mr. Tom Harrisson has worked in sarawak as the chief of Sarawak Museum, or another name, the Curator of Sarawak Museum.
His team confirmed the first C-14 carbon date for a steel , iron factory at the site known as Bongkisam at Santubong, Kuching, Sarak, Borneo.
Bongkisam is an ancient settlement area where tools and items traced back to Tang Dynasty (modern calendar year 615 A.D.)of China. People lived there made tools for agriculture and daily use utensils such as cooking pot, vase for storing water. There are lots of jars meant for storing food and drink, likely wine.
Tom Harrisson together with Stanley J. O'connor confirmed the settlement site with radioactive Carbon C14 method. The people settled there originally from China.
There are other sites around that area indicate settlement dated with radio active carbon confirm steel factory during Sung Dynasty (modern calendar year 1,100 A. D).
In the year 1991, the senior Research Fellow of University of Sussex, UK, Mr. Tom Harrison sent the items to the Geochron Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. the technical Director Dr. Harold W. Krueger supervised the radioactive Carbon date confirmation.
Chinese Ceramic is another durable items found in this settlement site. They have thrived in this country for hundred of years.
I pass by this area during my Scuba diving trip to near by Satang island. The area is a wilderness now. No body would have dream that it was a city.
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