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Hoabinhian, a.|həʊəˈbɪnɪən|
Also Hoabinian.
[f. Hoabinh, the name of a village in Vietnam where the first major site was found + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating a Mesolithic or Neolithic culture found in parts of South-East Asia, particularly Vietnam, Laos, and Malaysia. Also ellipt. as n.
1942A. H. Brodrick Little China 63 Last of all..comes the Hoabinhian which may stretch back into the Old Stone Age, although nothing unquestionably Palaeolithic has been found. 1971Nat. Geographic Mar. 339/1 The first domestication of plants in the world was done by people of the Hoabinhian culture, somewhere in South⁓east Asia. 1972Sci. Amer. Apr. 36/2 Since the initial discovery, many other sites containing Hoabinhian artifacts have been found. Ibid. 39/3 Local cultures that were distinctly different from the late Hoabinhian evolved at the start of this period. 1972M. Sheppard Taman Indera 3 The culture which these pre-historic cave dwellers followed probably preceded the end of the Ice Age. It has been named Hoabinhian, after a province in North Vietnam where this culture was first recognized. |