New evidence of old stone tools from the Mekong terraces, Cambodia
| Autor: | Laurence Billault, Hubert Forestier, Marc Philippe, Heng Sophady, Simon Puaud, Valéry Zeitoun, Roland Mourer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Early Pleistocene Pleistocene Prehistory General Engineering 010502 geochemistry & geophysics 01 natural sciences Archaeology Southeast Asia Southeast asia Ancient Palaeolithic Geography [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] Out of africa Biological dispersal Cobble tools China 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Comptes Rendus Palevol Comptes Rendus Palevol, Elsevier, 2014, 13 (2), pp.109--120. ⟨10.1016/j.crpv.2013.09.006⟩ Comptes Rendus. Palevol Comptes Rendus. Palevol, 2014, 13 (2), pp.109--120. ⟨10.1016/j.crpv.2013.09.006⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1631-0683 1777-571X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.crpv.2013.09.006⟩ |
| Popis: | The study of prehistoric sites with lithic remains indicates that the occupation of continental Asia, notably India and China, seems to have taken place earlier than previously thought. However, this Early Pleistocene human dispersal out of Africa remains debatable for the Southeast of Asia, in spite of the discovery of original lithic assemblages on the Mekong terraces dated to the very beginning of the Middle Pleistocene in the centre of Cambodia, by Saurin and Carbonnel in the 1960-1970s. Although this fundamental lithic material has become a reference, it has not been subjected to renewed study of these artefacts over the past decades, and it is thus not possible, for the moment, to attribute it with certainty to a particular culture. In this paper, we present an analysis of the raw materials and a techno-typological study of a similar series of prehistoric tools gathered by one of us in order to bring to light new elements concerning the first Palaeolithic occupation of this region of the world. (C) 2013 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. |
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