Hoabinhian

[ hoh-uh-bin-ee-uhn ]

noun

, Archaeology.

1. of, relating to, or typifying a middle to late Stone Age culture found in southeast Asia that is characterized chiefly by agricultural village settlements.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hoabinhian¹

1940–45; < French hoabinhien, after Hoà-bình province, Vietnam, where remains typifying the culture were first found; -ian

Example Sentences

Most studies were limited to single individuals or small groups representing a country and period, and identifying only broad patterns, such as genetic admixture of farmers from the Yangtze River valley in southern China with the local Hòabìnhian hunter-gather-associated gene pool during the pre-Neolithic.

From Science Daily

For instance, until the fourth millennium B.C. most of tropical Southeast Asia was still occupied by hunter-gatherers making pebble and flake stone tools belonging to what is termed the Hoabinhian tradition, named after the site of Hoa Binh, in Vietnam.

From Literature