Asia: Southeast Asia (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corinne Watts.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There are numerous megaliths on the islands of Indonesia, including the island of Flores where their constructions date to 2500-1000 BCE. Some of the stones that comprise these megaliths have been trafficked to other countries in recent years. In the early 2000s an Iowa City collector purchased a set of 50 of these standing stones from a location or locations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nia Ridwan.

This paper will focus on the development of marine archaeology in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. It will also highlight the interdisciplinary and integrated marine archaeology research programs in the region having aims to investigating shipwrecks, cargoes, and maritime heritage recent condition as well as identifying human and environmental threats. Marine archaeology research, sustainable shipwreck utilization for tourism development, and local people engagement in underwater cultural heritage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Carter. Sarah Klassen.

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 is the world’s largest premodern settlement complex, but to date no comprehensive demographic study has been completed, and key aspects of its population and demographic history remain unknown. Here, we combine multiple lines of evidence, including comprehensive lidar maps, archaeological excavation data, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roland Fletcher. Sarah Klassen.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The internal spatial organization of Greater Angkor changed profoundly between the seventh and the fifteenth centuries CE—yet in some ways also remained substantially self-similar. Separate settlements merged into one urban aggregation, and massive water storage and transport structures were added, along with a few very...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simone Tripoli. Nam Kim.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dong Son culture (c. 700 BCE to 200 AD), at its simplest, is a collection of a group of sites and artifacts that are characteristic of a particular group or region in northern Vietnam. Their most defining characteristics are their burial practices (i.e., the boat coffins) and their sophisticated bronze tradition seen from artifacts like weapons (i.e.,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Tayles. Sian Halcrow. Kate Domett. Louise Shewan. Dougald O'Reilly.

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. With the accumulation of bioarchaeological research in mainland Southeast Asia we are beginning to assess the impact that agricultural intensification and associated environmental and social changes had on these societies. Recent work is starting to build up a model of demographic change with increasing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ekaterina Menkina. Scott Macrae. Vo Thi Phuong Thuy. Le Ngoc Han.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The drone-imagery sub project uses drone based aerial photography and photogrammetry to document the water gates, walls, enclosures, canals, and shrines of Hoa Lu, supplementary to the IRAW@HoaLu settlement and survey research. Amidst the urban-landscape development, the cultural and natural features are subject to time....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Allard.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Well before the establishment—during the last two centuries BCE—of a “Maritime Silk Route” linking China to maritime lands to its south, archaeological evidence indicates the existence of wide-ranging links between coastal regions of the South China Sea. By the fifth century BCE, different types of goods moved along...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Klassen.

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. Recent research at Angkor has aggregated over 20 years of archaeological map data, which is providing important new perspectives on the agricultural production system of the polycentric low-density urban complex. Much scholarly attention has been directed towards the functional vs. ritual nature of the huge reservoirs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Monaghan. Caleb Kestle. James Meierhoff. David Reid. Richard Elliot.

This is an abstract from the "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taking the form of an *Annales enquête, this poster outlines a systematic approach to the recovery of remains of service personnel who are classified as Missing in Action from World War II from within a specific geographic area. It discusses the research program, the kind of data sources, and the way a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sian Halcrow. Kate Domett. Jennifer Newton. Thanik Lertcharnrit. Louise Shewan.

This is an abstract from the "The Future of Bioarchaeology in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1990s, there has been an increase in bioarchaeological research in many parts of Southeast Asia conducted by both locals and non-locals. Southeast Asian countries are characterised by varied social, cultural, and political histories, but there are also some broad similarities in terms of poor economic development that limits much...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raiza Rivera.

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. Water is an element which characterizes and links Southeast Asia, however, due to the difficulties of understanding its religious significance within the archaeological record, few studies have examined its symbolic meaning. As part of this ethnoarchaeology study, interviews and observations conducted in ten traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiyas Bhattacharyya.

This is an abstract from the "If Animals Could Speak: Negotiating Relational Dynamics between Humans and Animals" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This talk will discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study focusing on faunal remains from the Early Historic/Pre-Angkorian site of Angkor Borei, Cambodia. Angkor Borei is one of Southeast Asia’s earliest urban centers, located in the Mekong Delta region of southern Cambodia. It was also a prominent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jared Koller. Stephen Acabado.

This is an abstract from the "Geospatial Studies in the Archaeology of Oceania" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological dating of agricultural terraces is complicated due to the nature of its technological foundation and use. Various methods have been proposed for dating agricultural features, but the issue of stratigraphic disturbance persists. In this paper, we highlight our work in the UNESCO-listed Ifugao Rice Terraces as a case study to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Eusebio.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cultural aspects of science and technology—the science, culture, and art in everyday life—can be demonstrated through food and foodways. Foodways is the chaîne opératoire of what happens to food and associated materials from their acquisition until their discard. It is also a series of cultural formation processes, where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joyce White.

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. After decades of archaeologists interpreting Thailand’s metal age development using top down approaches drawn from 1980s archaeological theory, it has become evident they do not work for this region. During the course of interpreting metal assemblages from Ban Chiang and related sites in northeast Thailand,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiyas Bhattacharyya.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This talk will discuss the preliminary results from a study focusing on the analysis of select faunal remains from the Early Historic/Pre-Angkorian site of Angkor Borei, Cambodia. Angkor Borei is one of Southeast Asia’s earliest urban centers, located in the Mekong Delta region of southern Cambodia. It was also a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Clinnick.

Hallam Movius proposed that the Lower Palaeolithic cultures of East Asia and SE Asia were derived from a different cultural trajectory than that of Europe and Africa. The chopper-chopping tool complex of East and SE Asia was argued to be more primitive in many aspects. The type-site assemblages of the Pacitanian and Tampanian cultures are two out of only five assemblages that Movius initially used to define the chopper-chopping tool complex. The Pacitanian was first discovered by Michael Tweedie...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kuan-Wen Wang. Laure Dussubieux. Yoshiyuki Iizuka. Kuang-Ti Li. Cheng-Hwa Tsang.

This is an abstract from the "The Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum: Celebrating 20 Years Serving the Archaeological Community " session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plant ash glass was common around the South China Sea from the eighth century CE onward. While this “late” plant ash glass was mostly found in the form of vessel fragments of Islamic origin, “early” plant ash glass appeared before the mid-first millennium CE, predominantly in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alisha Adams. Sian Halcrow. Kate Domett. Marc Oxenham.

This is an abstract from the "The Health and Welfare of Children in the Past" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Neolithic agricultural transition has been found to have a negative effect on human health in many parts of the world. However, numerous bioarchaeological studies in Southeast Asia have shown a different pattern of health changes. Changing weaning practices have been argued to have major effects on population health and fertility around...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Cochrane. Timothy Rieth. Darby Filimoehala.

This is an abstract from the "Research and CRM Are Not Mutually Exclusive: J. Stephen Athens—Forty Years and Counting" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout his career Steve Athens has been concerned with generating archaeological chronologies that, because of their precision and validity, add to our understanding of the past. Steve was never one to generate dates of dubious quality simply to produce a table in a report. In this spirit, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Reid. Caleb Kestle. Elizabeth Goodman. John Monaghan. Keith Phillips.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 81,500 U.S. servicemembers remain missing from America’s past conflicts extending to World War II (WWII). The great majority of this number, more than 72,000, relate to WWII alone. For the past several years, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has partnered with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on the recovery of WWII personnel in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francis Allard.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the fifth century BCE to the early centuries CE, glass beads played an important role as trade goods along the Maritime Silk Route, with large numbers found at coastal and inland sites in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Archaeology and compositional analysis have identified distinct glass recipes and likely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Piyawit Moonkham. Andrew Duff. Nattasit Srinurak.

This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The concept of social heterarchy was first incorporated as an alternative approach to examining the sociopolitical organization of early settlements in the Southeast Asia region, particularly pre-state societies. However, applications of heterarchy are somewhat limited to archaeological research on social development,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Klassen. Scott Ortman. Jose Lobo.

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 dominant view in economic anthropology has been that agricultural intensification involves decreasing returns. This view is difficult to reconcile with the emergence of urban systems, which requires improved labor and land productivity to support non-food producers in urban centers. The issue is especially salient...