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Natural PlacesSite Name: Tham Lang Rongrien Alternative Name: ถ่ำหลังโรงเรียCountry: Thailand
NOTE: This site is 69.237 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Krabi Nearest Village: Ban than prim school
Latitude: 8.180060N Longitude: 98.880840E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Tham Lang Rongrien, which means cave behind the school, is a rock shelter in a lime stone hill.
It was excavated in 1983 by the American Archaeologist Douglas Anderson.
He found out, that the cave was inhabited from 38000 until 27000 years ago but not by a permanent settlement.
He found three stages of human use of the cave. The first with ash of 2 bonfire places. But then was a break of several thousand years with no sign of human access.
The second stage had 3 fire places and some stone tools.
Phase 3 had the richest amount of finds. 45 scrapers, knives and choppers made from local chert were found. Even some intentionally placed stones did not escape the trained eye of an Archaeologist.
Because of copyright problems I cannot put any photos so far. But there is a good one on the following Internet side: www.finearts.go.th/system/files/Krabi.pdf
Literature:Charles Higham, รัชนี ทศรัตน์. สยามดึกดำบรรพ์ ยุคก่อนประวัติศาสตร์ถึงสมัยสุโขทัย
กรุงเทพฯ1998
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