The archaeology of mainland Southeast Asia : from 10,000 B.C. to the fall of Angkor /

The archaeology of mainland Southeast Asia : from 10,000 B.C. to the fall of Angkor /

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Author / Creator:Higham, Charles
Imprint:Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Description:xvi, 387 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge world archaeology
Subject:
Prehistoric peoples -- Asia, Southeastern.
Antiquities.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Southeast Asia -- Antiquities
Southeast Asia.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/899549
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ISBN:0521275253 (pbk.)
0521255236 (hard)
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [363]-377.
Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chronological table
  • 1. Introduction
  • Aspects of diversity
  • The personality of Southeast Asia
  • The history of archaeology in Southeast Asia
  • Themes and approaches
  • 2. Hunter-gatherer communities and early domestication
  • The coast and hills of Bac Bo
  • Coastal groups in Viet Nam
  • A hunting and gathering tradition in the North Thai uplands
  • The Northern Thai uplands: summary
  • The hunter-gatherer occupation of the Chao Phraya plains
  • Coastal settlement round the Gulf of Siam
  • Domestication
  • 3. The expansion of domestic communities
  • The Khorat plateau
  • A general cultural framework
  • Non Nok Tha
  • Ban Chiang
  • Ban Na Di
  • Other excavated sites in the northern Khorat plateau
  • The southern Khorat plateau: Ban Chiang Hian and related sites
  • Dating General Periods A and B
  • The subsistence basis of General Periods A and B
  • The human remains
  • The material culture of General Periods A and B
  • The social organisation
  • The lower Chao Phraya valley
  • The lower Mekong and its hinterland
  • The coastal plains of Central Viet Nam
  • The Bac Bo Region
  • The expansion of domestic communities and the adoption of bronze-working
  • 4. The end of autonomy and emergence of chiefdoms
  • Bac Bo: the Dong Son phase
  • The Chao Phraya plains
  • The Khorat plateau
  • The uplands of Laos
  • The Vietnamese coastal plains
  • The transition from autonomy to centrality
  • 5. The development of mandalas
  • India and China
  • Geographic regions which sustained mandalas
  • The lower Mekong and the delta: A.D. c 100-550
  • The delta mandalas: summary
  • Mandalas of the middle Mekong and the Tonle Sap plains: A.D. 550-802
  • Zhenla mandalas: summary
  • The Dvaravati mandalas of the Chao Phraya plains and their antecedants: A.D. 200-950
  • The Mun and Chi valleys in Northeast Thailand
  • The Han: three border commanderies
  • Bac Bo
  • The mandalas of Champa
  • The dynastic history of Linyi
  • The archaeological remains of Linyi: the Cham mandalas
  • Champa: summary
  • The formative stages of Southeast Asian civilisation: a review
  • Summary
  • 6. The Angkorian Mandala
  • The dynastic history and main historic events
  • Taxation
  • The means of destruction
  • Agriculture
  • The pursuit of perfection
  • Summary and conclusions
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Index

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