The Hoabinhian Definition — In the Past and Today:

Moser, Johannes

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“…As regards the pattern of trade and exchange, Turpin (1983) dealt with the social and economic significance of the movement of stone edge-ground hatchets in Australia; Walker (2016) made also non-destructive X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) analysis to determine the provenance of the used raw materials of 242 hatchets found in southeast South Australia. Geneste et al (2010;2012) reported the evidence of the earliest securely dated fragment ground edge to implement in the world from Nawarla Gabarnmang, Arnhem Land. Hiscock et al (2016) reviewed the world's earliest ground-edge axe fragment from the Carpenter Gap in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.…”

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Stone assemblages from the surroundings of Tennant Creek (Northern Territory, Australia) Part II Macrolithic and edge-ground tools

Péntek

2022

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A large part of the Australian collection of the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, 766 stone artefacts altogether, was donated in November 1977 by László Pintér, a Hungarian citizen who had immigrated from his hometown Tata to Sydney. The stone artefacts have been processed by the author. The results of the processing are presented in two parts. This first part contains the description of the 731 flaked stone artefacts, while the planned second part will describe 15, partly macrolithic, partly edge-ground artefacts. Twenty artefacts will not be described. Most of these are grinding, polishing and smoothing stones with macroscopically undefined functions, for which only a formal description would be possible. In addition to the descriptions of the finds, the papers include detailed descriptions of specific Australian stone tools, based on the available archaeological and ethnographic literature. For the first part of the study, see Péntek ( 2021) Keywords Australia, Northern Territory, macrolithic and edge-ground tools, Warramunga and Walbiri tribes, Museum of Ethnography in Budapest Cite as Péntek, A. (2022). Stone assemblages from the surroundings of Tennant Creek (Northern Territory, Australia) Part II. Macrolithic and edge-ground tools.

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Stone assemblages from the surroundings of Tennant Creek (Northern Territory, Australia) Part II Macrolithic and edge-ground tools

Péntek

2022

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“…Indeed, the occupation of the Xiaodong Rock shelter in Southwest China has been dated to about 43, 000 BP (Ji et al 2016) and is considered to be the earliest occurrence of the Hoabinhian culture while the site of Huai Hin in Northwest Thailand, dated to about 3700 BP is considered to be the last occurrence with a lithic production associated with ceramic sherds (Zeitoun et al 2008;Forestier et al 2013). More than a hundred Hoabinhian sites have been reported in Southeast Asia (Moser 2001;Chung 2008;Zeitoun et al 2008;White 2011;Forestier et al 2017) leading inevitably to the question of the variability of Hoabinhian lithic assemblages with unexpected operational sequences on pebble matrix (Forestier et al 2022(Forestier et al , 2023. Despite this, the Hoabinhian people remain, however, quite poorly understood from cultural and material point of views.…”

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“…Currently, the earliest Hoabinhian deposits is considered to be the Xiaodong Rock shelter in Southwest China, dating back to about 43,000 BP (Ji et al, 2016).Similarly, the site of Huai Hin in Northwest Thailand, dated to approximately 3700 BP, is considered the last occurrence with a lithic production associated with ceramic sherds (Forestier et al, 2013;Zeitoun et al, 2008). Over a hundred Hoabinhian sites have been reported in Southeast Asia (Chung, 2008;Forestier et al, 2017;Moser, 2001;White, 2011;Zeitoun et al, 2008), raising questions about the variability of Hoabinhian lithic assemblages, including unexpected operational sequences on pebble matrix (Forestier et al, 2023(Forestier et al, , 2022. Nonetheless, despite these findings, the Hoabinhian people remain poorly understood from both cultural and material perspectives.…”

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Zooarchaeological investigation of the Hoabinhian exploitation of reptiles and amphibians in Thailand and Cambodia with a focus on the Yellow-headed Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata(Blyth, 1854))

Bochaton

Chantasri

Maneechote

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Although non-marine turtles are nearly ubiquitous in the Southeast Asian archaeological record, their zooarchaeological study has been very poorly undertaken in that tropical region of the world. This lack of study makes the understanding of past human subsistence strategies very complex especially regarding the prehistoric hunter gatherer populations which may have massively exploited inland chelonian taxa. In order to try to start a new dynamic regarding the study of the past human-turtle interactions in Southeast Asia we propose here an in-depth zooarchaeological analysis of the turtle bone remains recovered from four Hoabinhian Hunter-gatherer archaeological assemblages located in Thailand and Cambodia, and dated from the Late Pleistocene to the first half of the Holocene. Our study is focused on the bone remains attributed to the Yellow-Headed Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata) as they account for the majority of the turtle archaeological assemblages identified in the target area. For this species, we developed osteo-metric equations enabling the estimation of the carapace size of the archaeological individuals of this species. This allowed us to study the size structure of the archaeological populations in the different sites and to reveal the human exploitation strategies of these animals. We found a strong taphonomic homogeneity between the studied assemblages suggesting similarities of the subsistence behaviors in the different sites despite their very different environmental settings. We thus hypothesize putative cultural similarities across time and space. In addition, we also provide a baseline for future zooarchaeological studies as well as a methodological frame for the detailed studies of archaeological turtle bones in continental Southeast Asia.

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“…Similarly, the site of Huai Hin in Northwest Thailand, dated to approximately 3700 BP, is considered the last occurrence with a lithic production associated with ceramic sherds (Zeitoun et al, 2008;Forestier et al, 2013). Over a hundred Hoabinhian sites have been reported in Southeast Asia (Moser, 2001;Chung, 2008;Zeitoun et al, 2008;White, 2011;Forestier et al, 2017), raising questions about the variability of Hoabinhian lithic assemblages, including unexpected operational sequences on pebble matrix (Forestier et al, 2022(Forestier et al, , 2023. Nonetheless, despite these findings, the Hoabinhian people remain poorly understood from both cultural and material perspectives.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Zooarchaeological investigation of the Hoabinhian exploitation of reptiles and amphibians in Thailand and Cambodia with a focus on the Yellow-headed Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1854))

Bochaton,

Chantasri,

Maneechote

et al. 2023

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While non-marine turtles are almost ubiquitous in the archaeological record of Southeast Asia, their zooarchaeological examination has been inadequately pursued within this tropical region. This gap in research hinders a complete comprehension of past human subsistence strategies and economies, as only a limited number of comprehensive studies encompassing all the taxa found in archaeological sites have been conducted thus far. This constraint becomes particularly significant in relation to prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations, who might have extensively utilized inland chelonian taxa. In order to initiate a new approach to the study of past human-turtle interactions in Southeast Asia, we propose an in-depth zooarchaeological analysis of turtle bone remains recovered from four Hoabinhian Hunter-gatherer archaeological assemblages located in Thailand and Cambodia, dating from the Late Pleistocene to the first half of the Holocene. Our study focuses on the bone remains attributed to the Yellow-headed Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata) as it is the most represented taxon in archaeological assemblages in the region of study. For this species, we developed osteometric equations enabling the estimation of the carapace size of the archaeological individuals. This allowed us to study the size structure of the archaeological populations at different sites and to reveal the human exploitation strategies of these animals. We observed a significant taphonomic homogeneity among the studied assemblages, along with similarities in the diversity of hunted reptile and amphibian taxa as well as the size of the exploited tortoises. These findings suggest consistent subsistence behaviors across distinct sites, despite their varying environmental conditions, and raise the possibility of cultural similarities across different periods and regions. Additionally, we provide a baseline for future zooarchaeological studies and a methodological framework for the detailed analysis of archaeological turtle bones in continental Southeast Asia.

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The Hoabinhian Definition — In the Past and Today:

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Stone assemblages from the surroundings of Tennant Creek (Northern Territory, Australia) Part II Macrolithic and edge-ground tools

Stone assemblages from the surroundings of Tennant Creek (Northern Territory, Australia) Part II Macrolithic and edge-ground tools

Zooarchaeological investigation of the Hoabinhian exploitation of reptiles and amphibians in Thailand and Cambodia with a focus on the Yellow-headed Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata(Blyth, 1854))

Zooarchaeological investigation of the Hoabinhian exploitation of reptiles and amphibians in Thailand and Cambodia with a focus on the Yellow-headed Tortoise (Indotestudo elongata (Blyth, 1854))

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