Ref ID:	22895
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Gaillard, Claire Singh, Mukesh Malassé, Anne Dambricourt
Title:	Hoabinhian in the Siwaliks of north-western India?
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:	The Hoabinhian represents the late Pleistocene and early Holocene technical practices in mainland Southeast Asia and its bordering regions. Despite the land connections that existed during the Last Glacial Maximum this technical tradition did not spread eastwards in island Southeast Asia (except in Sumatra) but westwards. For instance, in Nepal, some lithic assemblages have been interpreted as proceeding from the same tradition. Further west, the Siwalik Hills of north-western India yield assemblages rich in cobble tools, known as Soanian. At places, these Soanian assemblages include quadrangular cobble tools comparable to some of those occurring in the Hoabinhian. The Soanian is always found on the surface, and therefore without chronological context for a long time it was assumed to belong to the Lower Palaeolithic. The occurrence of quadrangular tools looking like Hoadbinhian tools suggests instead a technological relationship with the East during the late Pleistocene. At the same time, people settled in peninsular India were using a completely different technology (flakes and blades with microlithic trends). The forested and hilly environment may be one of the reasons why such a tool kit developed.
Date Created:	9/12/2013
Editors:	Tjoa-Bonatz, Mai Lin Reinecke, Andreas Bonatz, Dominik
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