New evidence for Southeast Asian Pleistocene foraging economies: Faunal remains from the early levels of Lang Rongrien rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 298-334

  Mudar, Karen ^a   Anderson, Douglas ^b  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Faunal analysis; Pigs; Pleistocene; Southeast Asia; Subsistence; Thailand

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BONE; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PLEISTOCENE; SHELL; SKELETAL REMAINS; TURTLE;

ASIA; EAST MALAYSIA; EURASIA; KRABI; MALAYSIA; NIAH CAVES; SARAWAK; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHERN REGION; THAILAND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GASTROPODA; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 34748824162     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2007.0013     Document Type: Article

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