(Bellwood 2007: 132; see also Headland and Reid 1989). Without committing to
any position on the cultural identity of early hunter-gatherers, the ethnographies
show today’s hunter-gatherers to be extremely resilient; this could almost be the
new orthodoxy (see, e.g., Chan 2007; Griffin 1996b; Kent 1996; Puri 2005; Widlok
1999). The evidence suggests that the classical negrito adaptation epitomized what
a resilient social-ecological system might look like, one that has strong capacity