Patterns of Habitation and Burial Activity in the Ban Rai Rock Shelter, Northwestern Thailand

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dc.contributor.authorTreerayapiwat, Cherdsak
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-04T19:53:57Z
dc.date.available2010-08-04T19:53:57Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThe excavation of Ban Rai rock shelter (Pang Mapha district, Mae Hong Son Province, northwestern Thailand) has uncovered evidence relating to changing patterns of prehistoric human activity. Analyses of the excavation data, along with radiocarbon dating, have enabled the identification of two separate cultural components. The earlier component, the pre-Log Coffin culture, is dated by 14C to between ca. 12,500 and 8000 B.P. and is characterized by a wide range of lithics, an abundance of faunal remains, and a primary flexed burial. The second component, the Log Coffin culture, probably dates to ca. 2100-1200 B.P. and yielded human remains, potsherds, and iron tools, in addition to the log coffins themselves and their supporting posts. The composition of the artifact assemblages provided the main basis for the separation of the components, which has higWighted the changing use of the Ban Rai rock shelter from a primarily habitation to an exclusively burial site. KEYWORDS: Ban Rai, Log Coffin culture, lithics, Hoabinhian, flexed burial.
dc.identifier.citationTreerayapiwat, C. 2005. Patterns of Habitation and Burial Activity in the Ban Rai Rock Shelter, Northwestern Thailand. Asian Perspectives 44 (1): 231-45.
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/17233
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 44
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 1
dc.subjectBan Rai
dc.subjectLog Coffin culture
dc.subjectlithics
dc.subjectHoabinhian
dc.subjectflexed burial
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshAsia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshOceania--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshEast Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.titlePatterns of Habitation and Burial Activity in the Ban Rai Rock Shelter, Northwestern Thailand
dc.typeArticle
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