| Abstract: |
The Hoabinhian sites so widely distributed in Southeast Asia that Chester Gorman did not believe that the Hoabinhian was a unique culture. He denoted it with the term "technocomplex" borrowed from David Clarke. It is because of the fact that Hoabinhian inhabitants lived in various sites with different ecological conditions but had similar stone tool-list, the author thinks it is not adequately appropriate to apply the concept "technocomplex" to the Hoabinhian. According to the author, in the continental Southeast Asia, there really existed the Hoabinhian industry with two local variants: in the North (consisting of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand) and in the South (consisting of Malay peninsula and the northern Sumatra). Anyway, the author accepts a core Hoabinhian industry in Southeast Asia, he does not deny the existence of some industries contained some resemblance to the Hoabinhian in South China, Nepal, Australia, etc. They can be called Hoabinhian-like industries. The author proposes to call these industries, Hoabinhian and Hoabinhian-like, the Hoabinhoid industries.
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