Tham Moh Khiew - KR0122

กระบี่น้อย (TH)
8.158373,98.926078
Grottocenter / carte

Location

The cave is reported as being in an isolated limestone tower near Ban Na Chiang, 10 m above sea level and 13 km inland. Martin Ellis - 18/10/2019

Description

Martin Ellis - 18/10/2019

This site is a rock shelter where the oldest recorded burial site in south-east Asia has been excavated. The finds have been dated to around 35,000 years BP and include many tools and pottery. The cave is named after an herbal specialist who lived and died in the cave.

Documents

Bibliography 18/10/2019
  • +ANDERSON, DOUGLAS D. (2005) "The Use of Caves in Peninsular Thailand in the Late Pleistocene and Middle Holocene" Asian Perspectives Vol. 44 No. 1 pp137-153 +AUETRAKULVIT, PRASIT (2006) ôThe Late Pleistocene and Holocene fauna of Thailand: an archaeozoological approachö 18th Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Congress, Manila, 20-26 March 2006 +Bolger, Terry; Ellis, Martin (2015) "An overview of caves and caving in Thailand" Second Asian Transkarst Conference, 6-8 November 2015, Lichuan, China, 5pp +Bolger, Terry; Ellis, Martin (2018) "An overview of caves and caving in Thailand" Journal of the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association No 110 pp32-37 +Chaimanee, Yaowalak (2013) "Vertebrate Records. Late Pleistocene of Southeast Asia" in Elias, Scott A.; Mock, Cary (eds.) "Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science", Second Edition, ISBN 9780444536433 pp693-699 +CHITKAMENT, THANON (2007) "Lithic Analysis of Moh Khiew Rockshelter (Locality I) in Krabi River Valley, Krabi Province, Southwestern Thailand" Thesis for Erasmus Mundus Master, Universitat Rovira i Virgili 171pp +Conrad, Cyler (2015) "Archaeozoology in Mainland Southeast Asia: Changing Methodology and Pleistocene to Holocene Forager Subsistence Patterns in Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia" Open Quaternary Vol. 1 Article 7, 23pp +Conrad, Cyler; Higham, Charles; Eda, Masaki; Marwick, Ben (2016) "Palaeoecology and forager subsistence strategies during the Pleistocene û Holocene Transition: A reinvestigation of the zooarchaeological assemblage from Spirit Cave, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand" Asian Perspectives Vol 55 No. 1 pp2-27 +DUNKLEY, JOHN ROBERT (1995) "The Caves of Thailand" Speleological Research Council, Sydney ISBN 0-9589253-9-9 +DUNKLEY, JOHN ROBERT (1997) "The Caves of Thailand - Addendum 1995-97" Speleological Research Council, Sydney +Ellis, Martin; Laumanns, Michael (2017) "Thailand" in Laumanns, Michael; Price, Liz (eds.) (2017) "Atlas of the Great Caves and Karst of Southeast Asia: Part 2 Myanmar - Vietnam" second edition, Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte Band 67 pp241-292 +Lekenvall, Henrik (2012) "Late Stone Age communities in the Thai-Malay Peninsular" Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology Vol. 32 pp78-86 +Marwick, Ban; Vlack, Hannah G. van; Conrad, Cyler; Shoocongdej, Rasmi; Thongcharoenchaikit, Cholawit; Kwak, Seungki (2017) "Adaptations to sea level change and transitions to agriculture at Khao Toh Chong rockshelter, Peninsular Thailand" Journal of Archaeological Science Vol. 77 DOI 10.1016/j.jas.2016.10.010 pp94-108 +MATSUMURA, HIROFUMI; POOKAJORN, SURIN (2005) "A Morphometric Analysis Of The Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton From The Moh Khiew Cave In Thailand" HOMO Journal of Comparative Human Biology Vol. 56 pp93-118 +Oxenham, Marc; Tayles, Nancy (Eds.) (2006) "Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia" Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology Vol. 43, ISBN 9780521825801, DOI 10.1017/CBO9780511584220, 369pp +POOKAJORN, SURIN (1991a) "Preliminary Report of Excavations at Moh Kiew Cave, Krabi Province; Sakai Cave, Trang Province And Ethnoarchaeological Research Of Hunter-Gatherer Group, So Called 'Sakai' Or 'Semang' at Trang Province " Silpakorn University Press, Bangkok 225pp +POOKAJORN, SURIN (1991b) "Recent Evidences of a Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Archaeological Site at Moh Khiew Cave, Krabi Province, Thailand" Recentes Recherches en Archeologie en Thailande, Deuxieme Symposium, Franco Thai Universite Silpakon, Bangkok +POOKAJORN, SURIN (1994) "Final Report Of Excavations At Moh Khiew Cave, Krabi Province; Sakai Cave, Trang Province And Ethnoarchaeological Research Of Hunter-Gatherer Group, So Called 'Sakai' Or 'Semang' at Trang Province" Silpakorn University Press, Bangkok +Pumijumnong, Nathsuda; Wannasri, Sineenart (2015) "Teak log coffins in Northwest Thailand: Dated by dendrochronology and 14Cwiggle matching" Applied Environmental Research Vol. 37 No. 2 pp1-16 +SMART, DEAN (2003) "Sub-sea Level Speleothems From The Andaman Coast of Southern Thailand and Sea Level Change in Southeast Asia" Cave & Karst Science Vol. 30 No. 1 pp39-42 +Svasti, Pichaya (2016) "Legacy of early man" Bangkok Post 30 June 2016

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