Reply: Do not confuse large cutting tool types

Gaillard, Claire; Mishra, Sheila; Singh, Mukesh; Deo, Sushama G.; Abbas, Riza

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.12.008

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“…Currently, more than 150 Hoabinhian sites in Vietnam (Chung, 2008;Son, 2020;Yi et al, 2008), about 30 sites in Thailand (Chitkament, 2016a;Forestier et al, 2017a), 10 sites in Laos (Forestier et al, 2017a;Singthong et al, 2016), two sites in Cambodia (Forestier et al, 2015;Sophady, 2008), 16 sites in Malaysia (Adi, 1981), one site in Burma (Thaw, 1971) and six sites in northwestern Indonesia (Forestier et al, 2005a) have been recorded. Some Hoabinhian-like tools have also been discovered in the southern fringes of the Himalayas in Nepal (Corvinus, 1987(Corvinus, , 1989(Corvinus, , 2007 and northern India (Gaillard et al, 2010(Gaillard et al, , 2011Sharma, 1988). Bowdler (1994) even suggested that the southeastern extent of the Hoabinhian was in Australia.…”

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Reduction Sequences During the Hoabinhian Technocomplex in Cambodia and Thailand: A New Knapping Strategy in Southeast Asia from the Terminal Upper Pleistocene to mid Holocene

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The Hoabinhian is a cultural marker of the late Paleolithic in Mainland Southeast Asia. And it is one of the most debated topics in prehistoric research in Southeast Asia. However, today there is a lack of reliable information on the diversity of production strategies and tool structures in the Hoabinhian, due to poor scientific methods and few well-excavated sites in the twentieth century. Over the last two decades, a technological approach that aims to identify reduction sequences (chaîne opératoires) has been applied to Hoabinhian lithic assemblages. Results have been generated that broaden our understanding of the technological characteristics and nature of the Hoabinhian industry. In this study, we present two Hoabinhian case studies from Cambodia (Laang Spean Cave) and Thailand (Moh Khiew Cave) to reveal the reduction sequences and end products of the Hoabinhian industry. We also compare and discuss the unity and variability between the two sites.

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