Phimaen Cave
Coordinates: 19 ° 34 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 98 ° 16 ′ 51.9 ″ E
The Phimaen Cave ( Spirit Cave , Thai ถ้ำ ผี แมน , Tham Phi Maen ) is part of the Tham Nam Lot (Thai: ถ้ำ น้ำ ลอด , also: Tham Lot Pang Mapha - ถ้ำ ลอด ปาง มะ ผ้า ) cave system in the Pang Mapha district , Mae Hong Son Province in Northern Thailand .
In the cave system are archaeological sites, it was between 9000 and 5500 BC. . BC by hunter-gatherers of Hoabinhian inhabited.
Location and excavations
The site is about 650 meters above sea level in a chain of hills, about nine kilometers from the next village of Ban Lot. It was archaeologically worked on by Chester Gorman in the 1960s. Two other sites are also in the Tham Nam Lot cave system: the Banyan Cave (Banyan Valley Cave) and the Pa-Chan Cave (Steep Cliff Cave).
Neolithic and Agriculture
The site is in the Neolithic period dated commonly called the completion of technological development, Stone Age is considered. During this time, the targeted cultivation of plants by humans began. Traces of almonds , terminalia, betel , peas , pepper , cucumber and bottle gourds were also found in the Phimaen cave . Although these finds do not differ from their naturally occurring related species and are therefore more likely to be seen as the result of a gathering society, they are nevertheless viewed as an important preliminary stage in the targeted cultivation of crops in Southeast Asia.
literature
- Charles Higham : Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia . River Books, Bangkok 2002, ISBN 974-8225-70-4 , pp. 46-49.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chester Gorman: The Hoabinhian and After: Subsistence Patterns in Southeast Asia during the Late Pleistocene and Early Recent Periods. World Archeology 2 (1971), 300-320