Bacsonian

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Etymology[edit]

Bắc Sơn +‎ -ian

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Bacsonian (not comparable)

  1. (archaeology) Of or relating to a variation of the Hoabinhian industry, based around Bắc Sơn and characterized by a higher frequency of edge-ground cobble artifacts.
    • 2004, Peter S. Bellwood, Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History, page 180:
      On present evidence it seems that the Bacsonian is simply a late facies of the Hoabinhian, since it ended at roughly the same time.
    • 1953, Ancient India, number 9, page 76:
      The key to the neolithic problems of the whole of south - east Asia is found in IndoChina in the Bacsonian culture - complex as developed in caves and rock - shelters near Hoabinh and in the Bacsonian limestone massif in Tonkin province .

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