Prehistoric Thailand

Prior to the southwards migration of the Tai peoples from Yunnan in the 10th century, mainland
Southeast Asia had been a home to various indigenous communities for thousands of years. The
recent discovery of Homo erectus fossils such as Lampang man is an example of archaic hominids.
The remains were first discovered during excavations in Lampang Province. The finds have been
dated from roughly 1,000,000500,000 years ago in the Pleistocene. Stone artefacts dating to 40,000
years ago have been recovered from, e.g., Tham Lod rockshelter in Mae Hong Son and Lang Rongrien
Rockshelter in Krabi, peninsular Thailand.[5] The archaeological data between 18,0003,000 years
ago primarily derive from cave and rock shelter sites, and are associated with Hoabinhian foragers.[6]