Direct dating of a Neolithic burial in the Laang Spean cave (Battambang Province, Cambodia): First regional chrono-cultural implications

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 529-537

  Zeitoun, Valéry ^a   Forestier, Hubert ^b   Sophady, Heng ^c   Puaud, Simon ^d   Billault, Laurence ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c Ministère de la Culture et des Beaux Arts de Phnom Penh   (Cambodia)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Field anthropology; Prehistory; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CAVE; CHRONOLOGY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; DATING METHOD; EXCAVATION; GEOPOLITICS; NEOLITHIC; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PREHISTORIC;

BATTAMBANG; CAMBODIA;

SPEA;

EID: 84867643634     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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