Tham Pi Man Long Yuk - MH0139
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Location
This cave is located approximately 100 m south and 50 m higher than the Tham Pha Daeng (MH0066) sink entrance. A path leads up from the south bank of the stream to a steep scree slope and the cave entrance at the base of the cliff. It is a 2 km walk from the road and then a descent into the entrance (in 2018 the archaeologists had constructed a substantial bamboo staircase).
Description
This cave is a large dry cavern with a 25 m wide and 2 to 8 m high entrance which is probably an old sink. Holes lead down to small caverns beneath, otherwise the whole cave is in the daylight zone. Most of the cave and coffins are exposed to light. At the back of the cave is a lower dark chamber. Coffins and fragments are spread across the cave with the largest coffin on the far north side. At the front of the cave is a ledge that was a possible habitation site. There are two large coffins, one largely intact with a lid, lying on top of its collapsed support poles. The other is partly destroyed in the centre, but the ends and 3 of the 4 supports are intact in situ. There is some Thai graffiti on the biggest supported coffin and another large coffin has been burnt and chopped. The cave contained 19 teak coffins with human skeletal remains, earthenware sherds, animal bones, iron tools, a wooden loom, textiles, a wooden basket and large numbers of beads. Radiocarbon dating shows these log coffins to date within the range of 1960 ¦ 30 cal. yr BP to 1636 ¦ 44 cal. yr BP.
Topographie
SHOOCONDEJ, RASMI (2000) Shoocongdej, Rasmi (2015)
Documents
[Topo] MH0139 12/05/2019Bibliography 28/05/2020
- +DILOKVANIT (2000) - STD15 +DUNKLEY, JOHN ROBERT (1995) "The Caves of Thailand" Speleological Research Council, Sydney ISBN 0-9589253-9-9 +SEFTON, MARK (1998) "Tham Pha Daeng (MH 66) - North-west Thailand" Cave Exploration Group of South Australia News Vol.43 No.1 pp5-7 +Shoocongdej, Rasmi; et al. (2000b) "Archaeology" in "An exploration and database system of caves: Mae Hong Son province" Vol. 4. Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Bangkok - site 3 +Shoocongdej, Rasmi (2015) "Phi Man Long Long Rak Cave: A transition to history of Northern Thailand" Veridian E-Journal Vol. 8 No. 2 pp2572-2589 +SIDISUNTHORN, PINDAR; GARDNER, SIMON; SMART, DEAN (2006) "Caves of Northern Thailand" River Books, Thailand, ISBN 9749863135 +SPIES, JOHN (2000) "Suggestions for Cave Management" in "An Exploration and Database System of Caves: Mae Hong Son Province" Vol. 6. Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Bangkok ***Wasinger, Valerie C.; Curnoe, Darren; Bustamante, Sonia; Mendoza, Raynold; Shoocongdej, Rasmi; Adler, Lewis; Baker, Andy; Chintakanon, Kanoknart; Boel, Ceridwen; Tacon, Paul S.C. (2019) "Analysis of the preserved amino acid bias in peptide profiles of Iron Age teeth from a tropical environment enable sexing of individuals using amelogenin MRM" Proteomics doi:10.1002/pmic.201800341 11p ***Wipatayotin, Apinya (2018) "Finding common ground" Bangkok Post 11 February 2018
History
The cave was excavated by the Highland Archaeology Project in 2014-2018.
Caves nearby
| Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.2 | Tham Srisopon - MH0140 | 100 | 0 |
| 0.2 | Tham Pi Man Pha Daeng Scaffolds - MH0142 | 10 | 0 |
| 0.3 | Spirit Cave (Chester Gorman) - MH0064 | 70 | 0 |
| 0.3 | Coffin Cave MH0143 - MH0143 | 5 | 0 |
| 0.3 | Tham Chan Long - MH0141 | ||
| 0.9 | Pha Daeng Outflow (Pi Man) - MH0108 | 10 | 0 |
| 0.9 | Tham Pha Daeng - MH0066 | 1323 | 22 |
| 1.4 | Sink MH0307 | ||
| 3.4 | Tham Lot - MH0144 | 40 | 0 |