Lang Rongrien Rockshelter

A Pleistocene, Early Holocene Archaeological Site from Krabi, Southwestern Thailand

By (author) Douglas D Anderson

Book cover: Lang Rongrien Rockshelter

Extent: 104 pages

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 1990)

ISBN: 9780924171024

8.46 x 10.98 inches

Price: $27.00

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Lang Rongrien Rockshelter, Thailand’s first stratified late Pleistocene site, is thoroughly explored in this volume. Based on 1980s excavations, Anderson reevaluates Pleistocene/Early Holocene human habitation in Southeast Asia, offering insights from the site’s unique archaeological evidence.


Lang Rongrien Rockshelter was the first site excavated in Thailand to produce a clearly stratified, charcoal-dated late Pleistocene deposit beneath a well-defined Early Holocene Hoabinhian deposit. This volume presents in detail the excavations at Lang Rongrien Rockshelter in the mid-1980s. Anderson uses the evidence excavated as a starting point to reevaluate several issues with respect to Pleistocene/Early Holocene human habitation in Southeast Asia.

  • By (author) Douglas D Anderson