Ref ID:	37281
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Oxenham, Marc F. Trinh, Hiep Hoang Willis, Anna Jones, Rebecca K. Domett, Kathryn Castillo, Cristina Wood, Rachel Bellwood, Peter Tromp, Monica Kells, Ainslee Piper, Philip Pham, Son Thanh Matsumura, Hirofumi Buckley, Hallie
Title:	Between foraging and farming: strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia
Date:	2018
Source:	Antiquity
DOI:	10.15184/aqy.2018.69
Abstract:	Large, ‘complex’ pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer communities thrived in southern China and northern Vietnam, contemporaneous with the expansion of farming. Research at Con Co Ngua in Vietnam suggests that such hunter-gatherer populations shared characteristics with early farming communities: high disease loads, pottery, complex mortuary practices and access to stable sources of carbohydrates and protein. The substantive difference was in the use of domesticated plants and animals—effectively representing alternative responses to optimal climatic conditions. The work here suggests that the supposed correlation between farming and a decline in health may need to be reassessed.
Volume:	92
Number:	364
Page Start:	940
Page End:	957