Lang Rongrien Rock Shelter

The Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers who lived at the Lang Rongrien rock shelter used the site as a temporary habitation site [1]. The oldest use for the rock shelter was as a campground for hunters in the late Pleistocene epoch [1]. The excavated areas of the Lang Rongrien rock shelter have been divided into ten stratigraphic layers, or cultural deposit layers [1]. The eighth and ninth layers are similar to each other, with charcoal remains, stone artifacts and flakes, and animal bones that are scattered about among these layers [1]. The oldest pieces of charcoal found in the lower most layers where human habitation is seen have been dated to around 39,000 years ago [1]. Charcoal pieces from the upper layers have been dated to about 9,000 years ago [1].