Dr Bernard Maloney, one of the most prominent palynologists working in Southeast Asia, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Belfast on 11th October. Dr Maloney was for many years a member of the Palaeocology Centre at the Queen's University, Belfast, UK, where he took his BA in Geography. Later he studied for a MSc in the Physical Geography of the Tropics at the University of Liverpool and completed his PhD on the palynology of northern Sumatra at the University of Hull. Subsequently he worked at the British Museum and the University of Zimbabwe before returning to the Queen's University.
Dr Maloney's principal research interests were in Southeast Asian palynology, plant ecology and soils and he had undertaken extensive fieldwork in Britain, Ireland, Indonesia, Thailand, and most recently in Viet Nam starting only in 1997. In Thailand he was closely involved in the work at the Neolithic site at Khok Phanom Di and was the author of many papers, some of which are listed below. Written by Ian Glover.
Bishop, P., D. Hein, B. Maloney & A. Fried 1992. River bank erosion and the decline of the Sisatchanalai ceramics industry of North Central Thailand. Vol. 2(2), pp. 159-63.
Higham, C. F. W., R. Bannanurag, B.K. Maloney & B. Vincent 1987. Khok Phanom Di: the results of the 1984-85 excavation. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Association 7:148-78.
Maloney, B., 1980. Pollen analytical evidence for early forest clearance in North Sumatra. Nature 287:324-6.
Maloney, B., 1992. Late Holocene climatic change in Southeast Asia: the palynological evidence and the implications for archaeology. World Archaeology 24(1):25-34.
Maloney, B., 1993. Climatic change and early forest clearance in highland North Sumatra. The Indian Ocean Review 6(4):537-58.
Maloney, B., 1995. Dry Periods and forest fires in Indonesia. Indonesian Environmental Newsletter 5(June 1995):9-12.
Maloney, B., 1995. The origins of rice cultivation: recent advances. 4th International Conference on Thai Studies. London. (possibly unpublished)
Maloney, B., 1996. New perspectives on possible early dry land and wet land rice cultivation in Highland North Sumatra. Hull, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Occasional Paper No. 29.
Maloney, B. K., 1985. Man's impact on the rainforests of West Malaysia: the palynological record Journal of Biogeography 2:537-8.
Maloney, B. K., 1984. Man's impact on the rainforests of West Malesia: the palynological record Journal of Biogeography 12:21-9.
Maloney, B. K., 1990. Grass pollen and the origins of rice agriculture in North Sumatra. Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia 11:135-61.
Maloney, B. K., 1991. Palaeoenvironments of Khok Phanom Di: the pollen, pteridophyte spore and macroscopic charcoal record. In The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di, a prehistoric sites in Central Thailand, ed. by C. F. W. Higham and R. Bannanurag, London, Society of Antiquaries. pp. 7-134.
Maloney, B. K., 1994. Pea Bullock: a preliminary account of a 30,000-year record of vegetation and climatic change from highland North Sumatra. Quaternary Newsletter 73:7-14.
Maloney, B. K., 1994. The prospects of using palynology to trace the origins of tropical agriculture: the case for Southeast Asia. In Tropical Archaeobotany: Applications and New Developments, ed. by J. Hather, London, Routledge. pp. 139-71.
Maloney, B. K., 1996. Canarium in the Southeast Asian and Oceanic archaeobotanical pollen records. Antiquity 70:926-33.
Maloney, B. K., 1999. A 10,000 year pollen record from Nong Thale Song Hong, Changwat Trang, South Thailand. Journal of the Siam Society 86:201-17.
Maloney, B. K., C. F. W. Higham, et al., 1989. Early rice cultivation in Southeast Asia: archaeological and palynological evidence from the Bang Pakong Valley, Thailand. Antiquity 63:363-70.
Maloney, B. K. and F. G. McCormac, 1995. A 30,000-year pollen and radiocarbon record from Highland Sumatra as evidence for climatic change. Radiocarbon 37(2):181-90.
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