Ref ID:	27839
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Xueping Ji, Kuman, Kathleen Clarke, R. J. Forestier, Hubert Yinghua Li, Juan Ma, Kaiwei Qiu, Hao Li, Yun Wu,
Title:	The oldest Hoabinhian technocomplex in Asia (43.5 ka) at Xiaodong rockshelter, Yunnan Province, southwest China
Date:	2016
Source:	Quaternary International
Abstract:	The Hoabinhian is the most representative technocomplex in Southeast Asian prehistory for the later hunteregatherer period. As a mainland technology based exclusively on seasonal tropical environments, this core-tool culture was previously defined in northern Vietnam in 1932 and characterized originally by its large, flat and long, largely unifacial cobble tools associated with tropical forest fauna. The recent discoveries and dates obtained at Xiaodong rockshelter in Yunnan Province (southwest China) allow us to discuss the origin and the homeland of this singular Asian technocomplex which spread to Southeast Asia during the end of the Late Upper Pleistocene. Here we present the first Chinese Hoabinhian lithic implements in their stratigraphic and chronological context within a rockshelter site, and we address the question of the dispersal of modern humans from South China to Southeast Asia.
Date Created:	2/1/2016
Volume:	400
Page Start:	166
Page End:	174