Discovery of a Mesolithic burial near the painted rock-shelter of Ban Tha Si (Lampang province,Northern Thailand): Implications for regional mortuary practices |
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| Institution: | 1. UMR 9993 CNRS-Musée Guimet, 19, avenue d’Iena, 75116 Paris, France;2. Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Na Phra road, 10220 Bangkok, Thailand;3. UMR 7194, CNRS MNHN, 1, rue René-Panhard, 75013 Paris, France;4. UMR 7209 CNRS-MNHN, 55, rue Buffon, BP 56, 75231 Paris, France;5. UMR 7264 Cepam, Pôle universitaire SJA3, 24, avenue des Diables-Bleus, 06357 Nice cedex 4, France;6. Northern Archaeological Center, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Chiang Mai University, 239, Huay Keaw road, 50200 Chiang Mai, Thailand;7. 6th Archaeological Division of Fine Arts Department, Nan Museum, Nan, Thailand |
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| Abstract: | Although the oldest Neolithic cultures in eastern Asia have for the most part been documented in China and Vietnam, a large number of Early Metal Age sites have been reported in northeastern Thailand. On the other hand, the Hoabinhian, principally identified by its characteristic unifacial tools, is known throughout the Late Pleistocene up until 3000 BP and is spread across the whole of continental Southeast Asia. The chronology of Hoabihnian lithic assemblages is still poorly documented and burials from the period are scarce and often do not provide enough information to allow the evolution of regional mortuary practices to be investigated. Here we describe a burial dated to 7047 ± 53 BP found associated with a Hoabinhian stone tool assemblage and fauna near the painted rock-shelter of Ban Tha Si. This discovery provides important new chrono-cultural information for continental Southeast Asia, especially with regard to changing regional mortuary practices. |
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