| Abstract: |
This paper discusses the plant remains excavated from the Hoabinhian sites of Xom Trai (18,000-16,000 BP), Con Moong (12,500-8,500 BP), Dong Cang (11,000-10,000 BP) and Mai Da Dieu (19,500-8000 BP). Almost all the charred plant remains have been dated directly, except at Dong Cang, where the dates of the plant remains were based on C-14 dates of mollusk shells in equivalent layers. Nut shell fragments of Juglans (walnut), Castanopsis and Canarium are the main vegetable food remains in Hoabinhian sites in Vietnam from 20,000 to 8000 BP. The periods of cave exploitation overlap in the total Hoabinhian chronology and represent a long period of climate change from a cold climate at the LGM to a warmer climate in the early Holocene.
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