The Origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia

Higham, Charles; Higham, Thomas; Ciarla, Roberto; Douka, Katerina; Kijngam, Amphan; Rispoli, Fiorella

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“…However, the florescence of this craft occurred in the late second -early first millennium BCE, sparked by new incoming technological innovations (e.g. copper-base metallurgy) and by the demand for luxuries on the inter-regional exchange circuits of the SEAIS within the general process of social complexity growth that led to the formation of the IA regional polities (Pigott and Ciarla 2007;Higham et al 2011;Rispoli et al 2013; Ciarla forthcoming; Rispoli forthcoming B).…”

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Shell Personal Ornaments Craft at the Site of Tha Kae, Lopburi Province, Central Thailand. Tracing the Southward Dispersal of the Drilling Technique

Ciarla

Rispoli²,

Yukongdi

2017

JIPA

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Section: Figure 20 -Grooves At Different Heights Of the Bore Coresmentioning

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Shell Personal Ornaments Craft at the Site of Tha Kae, Lopburi Province, Central Thailand. Tracing the Southward Dispersal of the Drilling Technique

Ciarla

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Yukongdi

2017

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“…Ban Chiang has a legendary status within the history of archaeology in Southeast Asia owing to the dispute over the dating of the initial bronze production there. Bronze was originally placed at 3600 BC by Gorman and Charoenwongsa (1976) as a result of poorly-contexed radiocarbon dates from an early phase of burials with incised pottery and a bronze spearhead (Higham, Higham, Ciarla, et al 2011;Higham 2011aHigham , 1996bHigham : 7-12, 1996cHigham and Higham 2009b;White and Hamilton 2009;White 2006White , 1997White , 1986White et al 2004;Bayard 1996).…”

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Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Sarjeant¹

2014

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terra australis 42Terra 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. Dewey Number: 666.09597 List of volumes in Terra AustralisCopyright of the text remains with the authors, 2014. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher.Cover image courtesy of C. Sarjeant.Back cover map: Hollandia Nova. Thevenot 1663 by courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Reprinted with permission of the National Library of Australia. The excavations at An Sơn were funded by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council. My own research was funded by the Australian Postgraduate Award.The analysis of the ceramic fabrics was conducted with SEM-EDX at the Electron Microscopy Unit at The Australian National University, with guidance from Frank Brink. I would also like to thank Glenn Summerhayes for teaching me the benefits and methods of SEM and the electron microprobe.There are a number of people I would like to recognise for their support over the past few years. Charles Higham has always offered advice and provided useful information over the years, even after departing the University of Otago after my Master's. Nigel Chang initially invited me to Ban Non Wat eight years ago, and allowed me to visit again to review the more recent neolithic discoveries in 2009. Fiorella Rispoli and Roberto Ciarla shared their knowledge of the neolithic in central Vietnam, and Fiorella's wealth of knowledge on ceramics has always been a reference for me. Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung opened up the ceramic collections at the University of Hanoi to me in 2009, which offered some valuable comparative ideas for this monograph. Louise Cort and Joyce White organised a workshop on Southeast Asian ceramics in Washington, DC and Philadelphia in 2010; an event from which I gained much inspiration and I feel privileged to have been a part of it. I would also like to acknowledge those individuals from afar who were interested in my research -it helped to keep the inspiration going, so thanks to Andreas Reinecke, Nishimura Masanari, and those I met at conferences over these past few years.Closer to home, I would like to thank Anna Willis for her knowledge about mortuary ritual at An Sơn. I am also grateful for the new insights into southern Vietnamese archaeology after working alongside Philip Piper at Rạch Núi. Thanks to Judith Cameron who was so supp...

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“…This is a flat region bounded by the Dang Raek Range to the south, the Phetchabun upland to the west, and the Mekong River to the north and east (Figure 1). Many of the archaeological sites are distinctive because of their encircling banks and moats (Higham, 1989(Higham, , 1996Boyd, Higham, & McGrath, 1999;Boyd, 2007;McGrath, Boyd, & Bush, 2008). There is a history of assuming these features to be of a predominantly defensive function, with further related assumptions regarding sociopolitical structure.…”

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Laterite nodules: A credible source of iron ore in iron age northeast Thailand?

Cawte

Boyd

2010

Geoarchaeology

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The advent of iron metallurgy changed the course of prehistoric Thailand. There is, however, little information on the nature of iron production and the extent to which locally abundant and easily quarried lateritic iron may have been the ore source. For northeast Thailand archaeological sites, the presence of both iron slag and laterite iron nodules within and surrounding these sites has widely been assumed to represent localized smelting using locally sourced iron ore. This interpretation is, however, based on untested laterite-equals-ore and slag-equalssmelting equations. This paper tests these assumptions by examining the chemistry of the lateritic iron nodules from two archaeological sites. At one site, the laterite is not a credible ore source and iron working probably comprised only smithing. Local laterite at the other site may be a usable ore. We conclude that, in northeast Thailand, the use of local laterite as an ore source cannot be assumed and that presence of both laterite and slag is not necessarily evidence for prehistoric smelting.

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The Origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia

Cited by 113 publications

References 56 publications

Shell Personal Ornaments Craft at the Site of Tha Kae, Lopburi Province, Central Thailand. Tracing the Southward Dispersal of the Drilling Technique

Shell Personal Ornaments Craft at the Site of Tha Kae, Lopburi Province, Central Thailand. Tracing the Southward Dispersal of the Drilling Technique

Contextualising the Neolithic Occupation of Southern Vietnam: The Role of Ceramics and Potters at An Son

Laterite nodules: A credible source of iron ore in iron age northeast Thailand?

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