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Please select a historical period: 25 years ago / 50 years ago / 80 years ago / 125 years ago / 150 years ago 250 years ago / 400 years ago / 700 years ago / 1,200 years ago 1,500 years ago / 2,000 years ago / 3,000 years ago / 4,000 years ago / 5,000 years ago / 10,000 years ago 5,000 Years Ago in Southeast Asia In Thailand, at the Spirit Cave archaeological site, there is evidence of the cultivation of soy beans, almond, cucumber and water chestnuts. The types and variety of plants now being grown for food must have been close to the number of varieties we still grow today. Ban Chieng culture, Thailand, used bronze around 3600BC, about 1000 years earlier than in China. Ban Chieng is also noted for carved ivory sculpture and pottery.