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Between 1977-1979 archaeologists of the Hoabinhian Research Region from Silpakorn University excavated at Khao Talu, Ment and Heap caves near Ban Kao village, Kanchanaburi Province, West Thailand. The cave deposits were up to 2 metres deep and twenty six radiocarbon dates from Khao Talu and Heap caves allow us to date the deposits to between 11, 000 and 2, 000 BP. Three main cultural levels were identified: 1) Early Hoabinhian from about 10,000-4,500 B.P. with large pebble tools and flakes
2) Late Hoabinhian from about 4,500-3,500 B.P. in which pottery of the well-known Ban Kao Neolithic tradition was added to the Haobinhian assemblages, and 3) a transitional late Neolithic-Bronze Age level dated to about 2,500-2,000 B.P. Faunal remains include tiger, pig, various deer, goral, rat, dog, cattle, porcupine, bat, birds, and numerous amphibia, reptiles and crustacea. Twenty eight samples of higher plants were identified.
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