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Spirit Cave

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Spirit Cave is located in Northwestern Thailand at an elevation of 650 meters on a hill about 31 miles from the Salween River, first excavated by archaeologist Chester Groman in the mid-1960's(1). Occupied between 4800 BCE until around 800 BP during the end of the Hoabinhian period, most of these dates have been gathered from radiocarbon dating in charcoal samples found in the cave. Discovered was evidence of the inhabitants beginning to domesticate plants, particularly leguminous plants (a type of grain) (1). One of the plants domesticated here was the betel nut which was used as a stimulant (3) In addition to these, also discovered at the cave were almond, bamboo, and gourd. However, it was noted that these did not differ in phenotype from

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