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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190408T120000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/let-silent-stones-speak-techno
 logical-analysis-lithics-and-examination-cultural-homogeneity/
SUMMARY:Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and ex
 amination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southea
 st Asia from 30\,000 to 6\,000 years ago
DESCRIPTION:\n	Li Yinghua (Professor\, School of History\, Wuhan University
 \; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19)\n	Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad (John E. H
 udson Professor of Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard Univ
 ersity\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Asian Archaeology Seminar and the Fairba
 nk Center for Chinese Studies\n\n\n	The characterization of Paleolithic cu
 lture in South China and their relationship with mainland Southeast Asia r
 emains ill-defined and unclearly known. The lithic industry of South China
  has been characterized as simple “cobble-tool” industry persisting fr
 om early Pleistocene to Holocene and the most representative industry of S
 outheast Asia was also marked by pebble-tool techno-complex termed Hoabinh
 ian during late Pleistocene-early Holocene. The possible cultural link of 
 the two regions was proposed by some scholars but the technological charac
 teristics and variability within the two industries was elusive. We will p
 resent here technological analysis on several representative  “cobble-t
 ool” industries from the Luobi Cave\, Hainan Island\, dated to ca. 11-10
  ka\, Bailian Cave\, Guangxi Province\, dated to ca. 36-7 ka and compared 
 them with a well-studied typical Hoabinhian site of Laang Spean in Cambodi
 a and typical Hoabinhian stones artifacts from Vietnam. Except a minimum s
 imilarity in operational sequence (chaîne opératoire) the major differen
 ce has rejected the Luobi Cave and Bailian Cave as potential Hoabinhian si
 tes\, indicating a high originality and variability in the tool-kit of mod
 ern human groups during late Pleistocene-early Holocene transition in Sout
 h China and Southeast Asia. This study represents the first step towards d
 eciphering the cultural variability in this region from a technological vi
 ew and suggests that behavioral modernity and cultural variability should 
 be evaluated in regional and sub-regional scale instead of defining them a
 s a uniform progressive and incremental process.
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