1. Re-evaluating Pleistocene–Holocene occupation of cave sites in north-west Thailand: new radiocarbon and luminescence dating
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Joyce C. White, Cristina Castillo, Cholawit Thongcharoenchaikit, Sakboworn Tumpeesuwan, Rasmi Shoocongdej, Dorian Q. Fuller, Emily Lena Jones, Cyler Conrad, Ben Marwick, Charles Higham, and James K. Feathers
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010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,060102 archaeology ,Pleistocene ,Thermoluminescence dating ,General Arts and Humanities ,06 humanities and the arts ,15. Life on land ,Hoabinhian ,01 natural sciences ,Archaeology ,law.invention ,Geography ,Cave ,law ,Period (geology) ,0601 history and archaeology ,Radiocarbon dating ,Holocene ,Hunter-gatherer ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Established chronologies indicate a long-term ‘Hoabinhian’ hunter-gatherer occupation of Mainland Southeast Asia during the Terminal Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene (45 000–3000 years ago). Here, the authors re-examine the ‘Hoabinhian’ sequence from north-west Thailand using new radiocarbon and luminescence data from Spirit Cave, Steep Cliff Cave and Banyan Valley Cave. The results indicate that hunter-gatherers exploited this ecologically diverse region throughout the Terminal Pleistocene and the Pleistocene–Holocene transition, and into the period during which agricultural lifeways emerged in the Holocene. Hunter-gatherers did not abandon this highland region of Thailand during periods of environmental and socioeconomic change.
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- 2021