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Sumatralith
A sumatralith is a unifacial stone tool closely associated with the Hoabinhian techno-complex of Southeast Asia and manufactured by hunter-gatherer communities during the late Pleistocene to the middle Holocene. They are oval to rectangular in shape with unifacial flaking along the circumference of a rounded cobble or pebble. Sumatraliths are considered "master fossils" since they are often the most important artifact when identifying a Hoabinhian archaeological assemblage. , and currently collected in Lincang Archeological Museum, Yunnan, China
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A sumatralith is a unifacial stone tool closely associated with the Hoabinhian techno-complex of Southeast Asia and manufactured by hunter-gatherer communities during the late Pleistocene to the middle Holocene. They are oval to rectangular in shape with unifacial flaking along the circumference of a rounded cobble or pebble. Sumatraliths are considered "master fossils" since they are often the most important artifact when identifying a Hoabinhian archaeological assemblage. , and currently collected in Lincang Archeological Museum, Yunnan, China
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