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Starch Remains from Human Teeth Reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages Vegetal Diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sen You. Long Wang. John Olsen. Ying Guan. Quanchao Zhang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long been a vital link between Europe and eastern Asia. In the past, understanding prehistoric diets in Xinjiang was based mainly on carbonized plant remains unearthed from archaeological sites and isotopic analyses of excavated human bones. Here, we report on our analysis of human dental residues preserved on...

Staying Afloat: A Comparative Case Study of Angkor Wat and Tikal’s Management of Water (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Dods. Olivia Navarro-Farr. Karen Alley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation is a large-scale comparative case study of two distinct regions to see how their use and control of water was similar given their environments but different from social, political, and cultural perspectives. Specifically, I examine the sociopolitical nature of Angkor Wat as an expression of ancient Khmer culture and the Classic Maya city of...

Technische Beobachtungen zur Schalenbauweise anhand von rezenten Beispielen in Indonesien und die archäologische Nachweismöglichkeit von Schiffsbau (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timm Weski.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

Techno-Morphological Approach to the Stoneware Production in Angkor (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yukitsugu Tabata.

This paper will discuss several aspects of premodern stoneware industry in Cambodia. Based on the results of resent excavation of the stoneware kilns in Angkor area, traits of the kiln structure, fuel strategy, forming techniques, glazing, and loading method of the Khmer stoneware will be discussed.

The Technology of Metallurgy and Evolving Views of Its Development in Prehistoric Thailand (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent C. Pigott.

This is an abstract from the "Paradigms Shift: New Interpretations in Mainland Southeast Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the archaeology of prehistoric Thailand, the sub-field of archaeometallurgy has undergone numerous changes in established perceptions, both anthropologically and technologically. This paper introduces the Symposium and overviews recent shifts that characterize how metallurgy in Thailand has come to be...

The Temples of the Classical Kingdom of Bagan, Myanmar: The Bundling of Royalty, Religion, and People (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Tamura.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bagan was Myanmar’s political, economic, and cultural centre during the country’s Classical period (c. 800-1400 CE). Encompassing an area of 80 kilometers square, this landscape was home to approximately 4,000 brick monuments. These monuments were the result of the Buddhist pursuit of merit-making, the idea that...

Textiles of Indonesia: an introductory handbook (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

Textilien in Bali (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigitta Hauser-Schaublin. Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff. Urs Ramseyer.

Theravada Buddhist Monastic Activity at Angkor: A Discussion of What, Where, and When (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Harris.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The religious transition of the Khmer Empire (ca. 802–1431 CE) from Saivaite and/or Mahayana Buddhism to the religion known today as “Theravada Buddhism” is thought today to be one of the defining social phenomena of the late Angkorian period (ca. fourteenth to fifteenth centuries) in medieval Cambodia. However, despite...

Throwing bird hunting sticks and cross bamboo boomerangs from the celebes (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luc Bordes.

To build a ship: the VOC replica ship Duyfken (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R Garvey.

Towards an Integrated Socio-ecological History for Residential Patterning, Agricultural Practices, and Water Management at the Classical Burmese (Bama) Capital of Bagan, Myanmar (11th to 14th Centuries CE) (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gyles Iannone. Pyiet Phyo Kyaw. Scott Macrae.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The IRAW@Bagan project is striving to generate an integrated socio-ecological history for residential patterning, agricultural practices, and water management at the Classical Burmese (Bama) capital of Bagan, Myanmar (11th to 14th centuries CE) across a range of significant ecological, climatic, economic,...

Trade networks and selective cultural transmission of ceramic technologies in Neolithic southern Vietnam (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carmen Sarjeant.

This is an abstract from the "The Movement of Technical Knowledge: Cross-Craft Perspectives on Mobility and Knowledge in Production Technologies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New research on trade networks amongst early sedentary Neolithic communities, c. 4200-3000 BP, in southern Vietnam has shown that domesticated cereals and stone resources were imported to the coastal site of Rach Nui. While the stone likely came from quarry locales in the...

Traditional fishing strategies on Losap atoll: ethnographic reconstruction and the problems of innovation and adaptation (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig J Severance.

The Transition from the Middle to the Late Neolithic in the Yilan Plain, Northeast Taiwan (ca. 4,200 ~3,700 B.P.) (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chihhua Chiang.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper discusses the transition from the Middle to the Late Neolithic period in the Yilan Plain, Northeast Taiwan (ca. 4,200~3,700 B.P.) with a specific focus on analysing the material objects excavated from two sites, the Tatsuwei site (4,200-3,700 cal. B.P.) and the Wansan site (3,900-2,500 cal. B.P.). Previous research emphasized the importance of...

The Two Pillars of the Kingdom of Bagan, Myanmar: How Royalty and Religion Shaped the Settlement Patterns of an Empire (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Tamura.

Bagan was the political, economic, and cultural centre of Myanmar during the country’s Classical Period (c. 800 – 1400 CE). This immense empire operated primarily on two institutions: the crown and the sangha (Buddhist monkhood). Kutho (merit) was arguably one of the most important Buddhist doctrines in Bagan as it was believed to guarantee better social status upon reincarnation. Kutho, for the elite, was most commonly obtained by contributing large donations to the sangha. These donations took...

Under the Church Bell: Reducción and Control in Spanish Philippines (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jared Koller. Stephen Acabado.

The Spanish conquest of the Philippines redesigned the indigenous landscape to adhere to the idealized orthogonal plan outlined by King Philip II’s Ordinances of 1573, centered on the church plaza. This reconfiguration facilitated the successful political, economic, and religious control of the colonial possession. An aspect of this resettlement plan is the concept of Bajo de Campana (under the bell) that implied control through the ringing of the church bell. The plaza complex, which is...

Unentangling Hotspots and Episodes in Pre-domestication Cultivation of Cereals: Examples from West and East Asia (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorian Fuller.

This is an abstract from the "Subsistence Crops and Animals as a Proxy for Human Cultural Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The growth of empirical archaeobotanical data has highlighted that domestication processes in cereals were spread out over both time (millennia) and space (100,000s rather than 10,000s of km2). Updated data from West Asian cereals and pulses, alongside Chinese millets and rice, are analyzed. These data allow...

An Update on the Sonvian-Hoabinhian Controversy: Shape Analysis of Flakes and Cores from Mau A, Northern Vietnam (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Marwick. Pham Thahn Son.

This is an abstract from the "Geometric Morphometrics in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding stone artefact variation in northern Vietnam can be challenging because of the underspecified cultural taxonomies that have dominated analytical frameworks. For example the Hoabinhian is often thought to be a descendant taxa to the Sonvian. Our recent excavations at Mau A challenge this sequence. We apply statistical shape analysis...

Urban Economies and State "Peripheries": Angkorian Stoneware Ceramic Production and Distribution (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Stark. Peter Grave. Lisa Kealhofer. Darith Ea. Boun Suy Tan.

Angkor’s agro-urban capital covered more than 60 square miles, and its landscape housed farmers and artisans. Constraints of the archaeological record limit our ability to document production scale of most activities; the genealogical skew of Angkor’s epigraphic record in another reason. Yet Greater Angkor’s gardens and fields must have fed residents in the Angkorian state’s epicenter. Artisans built its temples, sculpted temple images, and cast metal goods; specialists and communities tended...

Urban Life Histories, Long-Term Angkorian Urbanism, and the Kok Phnov Site (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Piphal Heng. Miriam Stark. Alison Carter. Rachna Chhay.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Angkor was premodern Southeast Asia’s largest city from the ninth to fifteenth century. Centered in northwest Cambodia near the Tonle Sap Lake, this agro-urban agglomeration comprises extensive settlements linked through a series of road and water management systems. Research on Angkorian urbanism has focused on either...

Urban-palaeoecology of Cambodia's 'Middle Period' (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Penny. Tegan Hall.

The transition from the sprawling Angkor kingdom with its vast, low-density urban forms, to a constellation of smaller cities on the Mekong River was accompanied by profound changes to urban ecology and to landscapes – both in the failing low-density cities, and in the burgeoning trade-based centres that replaced them. Here, we present a paleo record of urban ecology that responds, in part, to changing population dynamics across Cambodia during the 15th to 19th centuries C.E. Implications for...

Urbanism and Residential Patterning in Angkor (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison K. Carter. Piphal Heng. Miriam Stark. Rachna Chhay. Damian Evans.

Greater Angkor (9-15th centuries CE) was mainland Southeast Asia’s largest low-density urban area. Some of the most visible aspects of this landscape are the large stone temples constructed by Angkorian kings and elites. While many scholars have hypothesized that these temple enclosures were loci of habitation, few have documented this archaeologically. In this paper, we present the results of two field seasons of excavation at the temple site of Ta Prohm, part of a broader research program that...

Using Sacred Landscape Model of Indigenous Cave Use in the Philippines (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Nicolas.

Caves are natural spaces, but like other natural settings, they can be perceived by people through highly variable cultural lenses. Caves are not generally used as utilitarian spaces, but are more often sacred spaces where rituals are performed. The material record of these subterranean features can provide insights for how past peoples connected to the symbolic landscapes of caves, thus affording opportunities to assess behaviors. Research on the ritual uses of caves is fairly new in the...

Waffen der SüdseeVölker (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ernst Germer.