Ref ID:	37099
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Conrad, Cyler Shoocongdej, Rasmi Marwick, Ben White, Joyce C. Thongcharoenchaikit, Cholawit Higham, Charles Feathers, James K. Tumpeesuwan, Sakboworn Castillo, Cristina C. Fuller, Dorian Q. Jones, Emily Lena
Title:	Re-evaluating Pleistocene–Holocene occupation of cave sites in north-west Thailand: new radiocarbon and luminescence dating
Date:	2021
Source:	Antiquity
DOI:	10.15184/aqy.2021.44
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.
Volume:	96
Number:	386
Page Start:	280
Page End:	297