Ref ID:	22892
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Zeitoun, Valéry Forestier, Hubert Auetrakulvit, Prasit Khaokhiew, Chawalit Rasse, Michel Tiamtinkrit, Chaturaporn
Title:	The paleolithic site of Sao Din, northern Thailand
Date:	2012
Source:	Crossing borders: selected papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists
Place of Publication:	Singapore
Publisher:	NUS Press
Abstract:	Human dispersal over time and space is still debated and recent discoveries and studies in India or China demonstrate a much older presence of human during the Early Pleistocene in Asia according to stone tools evidence. Information concerning the expansion of human groups into continental Southeast Asia is generally lacking — although fossil evidence demonstrating an early human presence in insular Southeast Asia does exist, i.e. Indonesia. A recent survey in Northern Thailand have produced a numerous series of stone tools which present an ideal opportunity for reconsidering the archaeological record of the Early Pleistocene in this region. We provide a preliminary description of the geomorphological context and a brief technological analysis of the stone tools from the site of Sao Din (Nan province). Technologically, this lithic assemblage presents the most similarities with southern Chinese assemblages dated between 1 Ma and 0.5 Ma.
Date Created:	9/17/2013
Editors:	Tjoa-Bonatz, Mai Lin Reinecke, Andreas Bonatz, Dominik
Volume:	1
Page Start:	53
Page End:	59