Research Catalog

Title

Unearthing Southeast Asia's past : selected papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. Volume 1 / edited by Marijke J. Klokke and Véronique Degroot .

Author

European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. International Conference (12th : 2008 : Leiden)

Publication

• Singapore : NUS Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Degroot, Véronique
• Degroot, Véronique,
• Klokke, Marijke J.
• Klokke, Marijke J.,

Description

xvi, 295 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 30 cm

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Alternative Title

Selected papers from the twelfth International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists

Subject

• Excavations (Archaeology) > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• Southeast Asia > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Part 1. Southeast Asia's Neolithic. Common Origins, Cultural Diffusion and Antiquity of Human Occupation. 1. The Prehistory of the Daic- or Kra-Dai-Speaking Peoples and the Hypothesis of an Austronesian Connection -- 2. Prehistoric Cultural Affinities Between Southeast Asia, East Asia and Northeast India. An Exploration -- 3. A Limestone Outcrop as a Landmark of Prehistoric Settlement in the Manatuto Region (East Timor) -- 4. The Cultured Rainforest Project. Preliminary Archaeological Results from the First Two Field Seasons in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak, Borneo (2007, 2008) -- Part 2. Mainland Southeast Asia's Bronze-Iron Age. New Dating, Mortuary Practices, and Material Culture. 5. Dating the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. The Cultural Implications -- 6. Ceramic Technology in Ban Chiang Cultural Tradition Sites, Northeastern Thailand -- 7. Unique Copper-Base Artefacts from Upper Burma.Coffin Ornaments? -- 8. Infant Jar Burials in Upper Burma -- 9. Recently Discovered Infant Jar Burials from Wat Pho Sri Nai, Ban Chiang, Northeastern Thailand -- 10. The Importance of Iron. Its Development and Complexity in the Southeast Asian Iron Age -- 11. Cultural Diversity in West-Central Thailand. Recent Excavations in Ratburi and Kanchanaburi -- Part 3. Southeast Asia Between China and the Middle East.Evidence of Long-Distance Exchange Relations. 12. The Glass Vessels from Guangxi and the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Period (206 BCE−220 CE) -- 13. Overview of Han Artefacts in Southeast Asia with Special Reference to the Recently Excavated Material from Khao Sam Kaeo in Southern Thailand -- 14. Foreign Trade, Local Taste. A Consumption-Based Study of Trade Ceramics in Late Proto-Historic Island Southeast Asia -- 15. Ongoing Archaeological Research at Si Pamutung in the Padang Lawas Area (North Sumatra) -- 16. Pagan, A Hinterland Port-City in Medieval Burma.A New Geographic Approach -- Part 4. Early Indianized Polities.Natural Environment and Material Culture. 17. The Distribution of Sema Stones Throughout the Khorat Plateau During the Dvāravatī Period -- 18. Archaeological Excavations at Kheedkhin, A Dvāravatī City in Central Thailand -- 19. Votive Tablets from Batujaya, Karawang, West Java. A Comparative Study -- 20. The Sources of the Khmer Empire.

ISBN

• 9789971696412 (paperback)
• 997169641X (paperback)

OCLC

811125431

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library