Conférence NCKU-EFEO

Conférencier:
Prof. Hubert FORESTIER 
Professor, National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), Paris


Sujet:
Cambodia’s Prehistory as Told by Recent Excavations at Laang Spean Cave


Date:
mercredi 3 décembre 2025 à 15h00


Lieu:
Salle 201, Institut d'archéologie, campus de Li-hsing Université nationale Cheng Kung, Tainan

Résumé:
The Laang Spean cave or ‘bridge cave’
(Battambang Province) is a major prehistoric site for Cambodia and for the
prehistory of Southeast Asia. The site was discovered and excavated between
1965 and 1970 by two French archaeologists, Roland and Cécile Mourer (Museum of
Natural History (MNHN), Lyon & CNRS-University of Lyon).
After a 45-year hiatus, the Mission Préhistorique Franco Cambodgienne (MPFC) led by Hubert Forestier (MNHN) and Dr. Heng Sophady (URBA-MCFA) reopened excavations in 2009 with the support of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture/Royal University of Fines-Arts, Phnom Penh, the MEAE, the French Embassy of Cambodia, the CNRS and the MNHN.
This talk will place the history of theexcavations at Laang Spean cave site in the context of archaeological researchin Cambodia, and present the main results recently obtained by the MPFC. The deep stratigraphy (-13 m) reveals four archaeological levels ranging from the Final Upper Palaeolithic (71,000 years ago) to the Hoabinhian (13,000 – 5000 cal BC) and Neolithic (1500 cal. BC) periods.


La conférence sera organisé par l'Institut
d'archéologie de l'Université nationale Cheng Kung de Tainan et le Centre EFEO
de Taipei.

※ La conférence sera donnée en anglais. Entrée libre.

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