Khao Pah Nam - LA0030

เสริมงาม (TH)
18.014152,99.317369
Grottocenter / carte

Location

About 2 km from Ban Hat Pu Dai, on the west bank of the Mae Wang in a cliff at the foot of Khao Pah Nam. Martin Ellis - 06/12/2019

Description

Martin Ellis - 06/12/2019

The cave is in a highly dissected and weathered limestone tower. It is an important fossil site with cranial fragments of what is possibly Homo erectus having been found in the cave.

Documents

Bibliography 06/12/2019
  • +DUNKLEY, JOHN ROBERT (1995) "The Caves of Thailand" Speleological Research Council, Sydney ISBN 0-9589253-9-9 ***Kunimatsu, Yakata; Saegusa, Haruo; Nakaya, Hideo; Ratanasthien, Benjavun; Nagaoka, Shinji; Tsubamoto, Takeshia (2000) "Field notes on the fossil localities in northern Thailand visited during the field season of February 1999" Asian Paleoprimatology Vol. 1 pp115-13 +MARWICK, BEN (2009) "Biogeography of Middle Pleistocene Hominins in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Review of Current Evidence" Quaternery International Vol. 202 Issues 1-2 pp51-58 +POPE, G.G. ET AL. (1980) "Palaeoanthropological Investigations of the Thai-American Expedition in Northern Thailand (1978-1980): An Interim Report" Asian Perspectives Vol. 21 No. 2 pp147-163 +PRAMANKIJ, SOMSAK; SUBHAVAN, VUDHANA (2001a) "Preliminary Report on the Discovery of Evidence of the Oldest Hominids (2 million to 200,000 years old) in Thailand" Silpa Wattanatham Vol. 23 pp38-47 (Thai) +PRAMANKIJ, SOMSAK; SUBHAVAN, VUDHANA (2001b) "Report on Fossils from Hat Pu Dai, Northern Thailand" Siriraj Medical School, Mahidol University, unpublished report +SUBHAVAN, VADHANA; PRAMAKIJ, SOMSAK; TOBIAS, PHILLIP V.; SPOCTER, MUHAMMAD AADIL (unpublished) "The four cranial fragments (probably Homo erectus) discovered from Doi Ta Ka (Locality 1) Lampang Province Northern Thailand" Under Review: ***Suraprasit, Kantapon; Jaeger, Jean-Jacques; Chaimanee, Yaowalak; Chavasseau, Olivier; Yamee, Chotima; Tian, Pannipa; Panha, Somsak (2016) "The Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Khok Sung (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand): biochronological and paleobiogeographical implications" ZooKeys No. 613 pp1-157 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.613.8309

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