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This episode explores the changes in funerary rituals, ornaments, and tools among hunter gatherer societies in Southeast Asia during the Terminal Pleistocene.

19,000 to 11,700 years ago ... In the Himalayan foothills of Thailand and the southern islands of Wallacea, the adoption of new funerary rituals, ornaments, and tools by hunter gatherer societies coincided with global warming and large human migrations. Support the show

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