Man Bac (Terra Australis 33): The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam

Abstract

terra australis 33Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series.

Late prehistoric and early historic chronology of Myanmar: a four-millennia sequence from Halin

“…However, MSEA research over the past 30 years strongly supports the two-layer model in the fields of material culture, linguistics, bioarchaeology, archaeobotany and aDNA studies (e.g. Rispoli 2007;Higham et al 2011;Oxenham et al 2011;Piper et al 2017;Lipson et al 2018;McColl et al 2018;d'Alpoim Guedes et al 2020;Higham 2021); though there is, of course, much room for refinement and chrono-spatial variations.…”

“…(e.g. Oxenham et al 2011;Pryce et al 2018a). When layers could not be followed in plan at Halin, arbitrary spits of 100mm were removed until features were again revealed and context numbers harmonised to provide a full recording (see OSM2 for descriptions of MAFM excavations).…”