The ethnoarchaeological research among the Phi Tong Luang: a hunter-gatherer group and its comparison with the archabology of the hoabinhian culture or technocomplex

Abstract

The Mlabri, or the Phi Tong Luang (the Spirits of the Yellow Leaves) as they are often called, are one of the last surviving groups of hunting and food-gathering people in Thailand. This paper will discuss their hunting patterns and their periodic movements in search of food with the aim of developing better explanations for the Hoabinhian, a late Stone Age cultural tradition widespread on the mainland of Southeast Asia from the end of the Pleistocene to the mid-recent period.