| Ref ID: | 23696 |
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| Ref Type: | Book Section |
| Authors: | Lenoble, Arnaud Zeitoun, Valéry Laudet, Frédéric Seveau, Arnoult Doy Asa, Tasana |
| Title: | Natural processes involved in the formation of Pleistocene bone assemblages in continental South-east Asian caves: the case of the cave of the monk (Chiang Dao Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand) |
| Date: | 2008 |
| Source: | From <i>Homo erectus</i> to the living traditions |
| Place of Publication: | Chiang Mai |
| Publisher: | European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists |
| Notes: | Choice of Papers from the 11th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Bougon, 25th-29th September 2006. |
| Abstract: | A large paleontological assemblage typical of <i>Ailuropoda-Stegodon</i> fauna was discovered in the Cave of the Monk, in northern Thailand. Geological and taphonomic approaches were conducted in order to determine site formation processes. A sedimentological study indicated that the fossiliferous layer resulted from medium-size burrowing animals occupying the cave. Bone surface analysis confirmed that Porcupine was the main, if not exclusive, bone accumulator. A bone appears to have formed over an average period of one to several tens of thousands of years. This time frame means that the assemblage can not be considered as a homogeneous reference for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction as may have been assumed without the present analysis. |
| Date Created: | 10/6/2008 |
| Editors: | Pautreau, Jean-Pierre Coupey, Anne-Sophie Zeitoun, Valéry Rambault, Emma |
| Page Start: | 41 |
| Page End: | 50 |