Initial States Of Thailand
Before the southward migration of the Tai people from Yunnan in the 10th century, the Indochinese peninsula had been a home to various indigenous animistic communities as far back as 500,000 years ago. The recent discovery of Homo erectus fossils, also known as the Lampang man is but one example. The remains were first discovered during excavations in Lampang province, Thailand. The finds have been dated from roughly 1,000,000 – 500,000 years ago in the Pleistocene.
Historians agree that the diverse Austroasiatic groups that inhabited the Indochina peninsula are related to the people who still inhabit the islands of the Pacific. These peoples were dispersed along the Gulf of Thailand, Malay Peninsula and Malay Archipelago, they inhabited the coastal areas of the archipelago as well as other remote islands. The seafarers possessed advanced navigation skills, some of the seafarers sailed as far as New Zealand, Hawaii and Madagascar.
The most well known pre-historic settlement in Thailand is often associated to the major archaeological site at Ban Chiang; dating of artifacts from this site is a consensus that at least by 3600 BC the inhabitants had developed bronze tools and also began the cultivation of rice.
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