7. South Asia and the Tapanuli Area (North-West Sumatra): Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE

Perret, Daniel; Surachman, Heddy

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“…We can thus suspect that the former practice of cremation in the region of the Pakpak Batak arose from Indian influences. In fact, a direct influence is plausible, because, from the ninth to the twelfth century, an important port that was the seat of a trade guild of India's Tamil Chola empire was located in Barus on Sumatra's west coast (Guy 2011;Perret and Surachman 2011). A Tamil inscription found in Lobu Tua near Barus has been dated to 1088 (Subbarayalu 1998).…”

Section: The Rider Statues In the Lands Of The Pakpak Batakmentioning

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Across the highlands: Ethnicity, archaeology and monuments in the lands of the Rejang, Minangkabau and Batak

Bonatz

2024

Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra

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Since its beginnings, prehistoric archaeology in the highlands of Sumatra has been mainly concerned with stone monuments, generally labelled as megaliths. They have survived in large quantities in various highland regions, exhibit a variety of formal and iconic characteristics, and date to a number of periods, from the early first millennium AD to the present. Given this spatial and diachronic extent, the variety of megalithic forms of expression and their differing social contexts present an important field of inquiry. In this chapter, I show how these megaliths represent cultural developments that are intertwined with other developments in the lowlands and coastal areas of Sumatra. Furthermore, I argue for the need to consider the megalithic remains from the perspective of the local communities in which they are nowadays embedded. Major ethnic groups in the highlands of Sumatra, such as the Rejang, Minangkabau and Batak, attach different values to their megalithic heritage. In archaeology, it is very helpful to make use of these values when prehistoric monuments are reviewed from a historical perspective.

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Section: The Rider Statues In the Lands Of The Pakpak Batakmentioning

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Across the highlands: Ethnicity, archaeology and monuments in the lands of the Rejang, Minangkabau and Batak

Bonatz

2024

Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra

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“…In fact, a direct influence is plausible, because, from the ninth to the twelfth century, an important port that was the seat of a trade guild of India's Tamil Chola empire was located in Barus on Sumatra's west coast (Guy 2011;Perret and Surachman 2011). A Tamil inscription found in Lobu Tua near Barus has been dated to 1088 (Subbarayalu 1998).…”

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Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra

2024

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Work in the field would not have been possible without the support and cooperation of staff and students from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, who have been instrumental in these projects' palaeontology field programs, which were initiated in 2015 and have continued ever since. In particular, deep gratitude is expressed to Drs Jahdi Zaim, Yan Rizal, Aswan, Mika Rizki Puspaningrum and Agus Tri Hascaryo for their assistance in the laboratory and the field. We also thank them for their valuable assistance in translating the chapter abstracts for this volume.Finally, we thank the following for their assistance in publishing this volume: the two anonymous reviewers, who provided detailed and constructive comments that helped improve all the chapters in this volume; Sue O'Connor, the editor of the Terra Australis series; the College of Asia and the Pacific; and ANU Press.

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Southeast Asia

Wain¹

2020

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology

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Southeast Asia’s Islamic archaeology remains unexplored and poorly understood. A perception even persists amongst some scholars that the region does not constitute fertile ground for the archaeologist, with its high humidity destroying valuable remains. This chapter, however, demonstrates that Southeast Asia is home to a fascinating array of early Islamic artifacts. Focusing on the sites of four early Southeast Asian Islamic kingdoms, namely Barus, Lambri, Samudera-Pasai, and Brunei, this chapter considers their archaeology in the context of recent claims that Muslims from China were involved in the region’s Islamization. Consonant with conversion, the chapter demonstrates that all four locations did indeed experience a connection of some sort with China. Most notably, all the sites (except Samudera-Pasai, for which no systematic ceramic evidence is available) yielded considerable amounts of Chinese pottery, pre-modern China’s principal export item. Three of the sites, Lambri, Samudera-Pasai, and Brunei, also witnessed the utilization of numerous Chinese artistic motifs in association with their earliest Islamic artifacts. Most strikingly, however, Brunei provides strong evidence not only of a much earlier sultanate than previously suspected but also of a direct connection with the major Chinese port of Quanzhou. While continually stressing that the presence of Chinese trade items and/or cultural influences does not establish a Chinese (Muslim or otherwise) presence at the examined locations, they do demonstrate that Southeast Asia’s first Muslim kingdoms emerged within an environment suffuse with Chinese trade goods and at a time when Chinese cultural influences were being freely adopted by the local Muslim population.

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7. South Asia and the Tapanuli Area (North-West Sumatra): Ninth-Fourteenth Centuries CE

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Across the highlands: Ethnicity, archaeology and monuments in the lands of the Rejang, Minangkabau and Batak

Across the highlands: Ethnicity, archaeology and monuments in the lands of the Rejang, Minangkabau and Batak

Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra

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