Original article The first lithic industry of mainland Southeast Asia: Evidence of the earliest hominin in a tropical context Les premie `res industries lithiques d’Asie du Sud-Est continentale : e ´vidence des premiers hominines en contexte tropical Hubert Forestier a,h,i, *, Yuduan Zhou a,b,h,i , Heng Sophady c,i , Yinghua Li b,g , David Codeluppi d , Prasit Auetrakulvit e,h , Vale ´ry Zeitoun f,h,i a Muse ´um National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, Muse ´e de l’Homme, 17, place du Trocade ´ro, 75116 Paris, France b Archaeological Institute for Yangtze Civilization, Wuhan University, 430072 Wuhan, China c Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts & Royal University of Fines-Arts, Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia d ArScAn-E ´ quipe AnTET, UMR 7041, CNRS, Universite ´ Paris Nanterre, 21, Alle ´e de l’Universite ´, 92000 Nanterre, France e Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Na Phra road, 10220 Bangkok, Thailand f UMR 7207-CR2P- Cnrs-Mnhn-Sorbonne Universite ´, Campus Jussieu 4, place Jussieu, 75 252 Paris Cedex 05, France g ArScAn-E ´ quipe AnTET, UMR 7041, CNRS, Universite ´ Paris Ouest Nanterre La De ´fense, 92000 Nanterre, France h Mission Pale ´olithique Franco-Thaı¨e (MPFT), Ministe `re de l’Europe et des Affaires E ´ trange `res (MEAE) i Mission Pre ´historique Franco-Cambodgienne (MPFC), Ministe `re de l’Europe et des Affaires E ´ trange `res (MEAE) L’anthropologie 126 (2022) 102996 * Corresponding author at: Muse ´um National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, Muse ´e de l’Homme, 17, place du Trocade ´ ro, 75116 Paris, France. Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect et e ´ galement disponible sur www.em-consulte.com https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2022.102996 0003-5521/  C 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.