Asia: Southeast Asia (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hoa Lu was the capital of Vietnam in the 10th century and is now the core area of the Trang An UNESCO world heritage site. In collaboration with Dr.Thuy, we focus on the visualization of Hoa Lu enclosures. Oral traditions, illustrations, and archaeological evidence of the ring-based walls provide an insight into the...
50 years of North America archaeometallurgy in 15 minutes (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From about 1973 through the early 1990’s the University of Pennsylvania group of Maddin, Muhly, Pigott and Stech were among the world leaders in archaeometallurgy. In this presentation I try to situate their work within a brief history of his topic in North America. With two notable exceptions (the consultant...
Analyses of metallurgical remains from Failaka, Kuwait: Exploring the Persian Gulf metals trade in the 2nd millennium BCE (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews the exchange of metals within the greater Persian Gulf region during the 2nd millennium BCE, considering archaeological, archaeometric and documentary evidence. The specific focus is the metallurgical assemblage from Failaka Island (Kuwait) and its implications for the continued production and...
Anthracological Investigation of Forest Management Practices at Three Bronze Age Sites in Central Thailand (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Social and Environmental Context for Early Metalworking in Central Thailand" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Anthracological examinations of charred wood remains associated with the excavations from the Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project (TAP) provide valuable insights into ecological management strategies in the region. Excavations at Non Pa Wai (NPW), Nil Kham Haeng (NKH) and Non Mak La (NML) have produced...
Archives & Archaeology: Towards a More Complete History of Global Conflicts (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in accounting for global conflicts in the historical record. The problem, as described here, is the “archives-versus-archaeology” gap: the space that exists between documentary evidence related to global conflicts held in archives and archaeological evidence of those conflicts on the ground. The “global”...
Crashed, Modeled, then Rescued: AI Algorithms Reduce Rescue Time for Crash Survivors (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A major topic of archaeological research includes the modeling of human movement across diverse landscapes, often in terms of how geography can facilitate or impede mobility. On an operational level, modeling human movement allows archaeologists to determine likely travel corridors that may aid in the identification of new sites and features, or...
Early iron metallurgy in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The appearance of iron in southwest Asia in the late second to early first millennium BCE is currently understood as a complex social phenomenon, and yet pinpointing even broad details of a technological emergence that led to a full-fledged Iron Age has proven to be a major challenge. Since the work commemorated in...
Enigmatic Copper-base Cordiform Implements as Markers of Later 1st Millennium BCE Regional Interaction (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Social and Environmental Context for Early Metalworking in Central Thailand" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project (TAP) excavations (1990) at the 5-hectare, copper-smelting settlement of Nil Kham Haeng (NKH) in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley (KWPV) in central Thailand, yielded certain enigmatic metal artefacts. They are small, copper-base, socketed implements termed ‘cordiforms’...
Eurasian discoveries in Bronze- an archaeological tribute to Vincent Pigott (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bronze technology transformed the a range of Eurasian societies in prehistory, shaping the economic, political, and symbolic landscape for millennia. In Central Eurasia, tin-bronze (in particular) held a particular role. This paper will explore the innovation and integration of tin-bronze in Central Eurasian...
Evidence of Iron Smelting at the Tenth Century CE capital of Hoa Lu, Vietnam (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Recent excavations by the IRAW@Hoa Lu research team have uncovered an iron smelting furnace located in the periphery of the 10<sup>th</sup> century CE capital of Hoa Lu, Vietnam. This paper will present the preliminary analysis of the fabrication of this bloom furnace and an interpretation of its associated...
Experimental Methodologies: An Analysis of Ancient Bronze Crossbow Bolt Production (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This pilot research replicates the production of Dong Son trilobate bronze crossbow bolts using sandstone molds. The Dong Son site of Co Loa, located near Hanoi, Vietnam, is associated with the production of crossbow technology, as several thousand bronze bolts have been recovered archaeologically. However, there has been very little research done on...
Fauna from Funan: Investigating Human-Animal Interactions at Angkor Borei, Cambodia (500 BCE-500 CE) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I will present preliminary results of a study where I analyzed select zooarchaeological remains from the Early Historic/Pre-Angkorian site of Angkor Borei, Cambodia, excavated as part of the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP). Angkor Borei is one of Southeast Asia’s earliest urban centers,...
Gold and heterarchy: from Crete to Colombia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role of metals in prehistoric societies is typically linked to concepts of power and hierarchy. Challenging established assumptions, the project led by Vince Piggott and colleagues in the KWPV of Thailand was one of the first to introduce heterarchy in archaeometallurgy. They demonstrated that large-scale,...
High-tin Bronze in Southeast Asia: Where Did it Come from, How was it Made, and Who Used it? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> One noteworthy feature of metallurgy in Southeast Asia is the appearance of quenched high-tin (tin between 20% and 30%) artifacts in the later 1<sup>st</sup> millennium BC. This intractable alloy cannot be worked cold but only hot-worked. Thin-walled (o.2-0.3mm) vessels of quenched high-tin bronze have been...
An investigation into Non Pa Wai, its human-landscape relationships and their regional implications in Central Thailand (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Social and Environmental Context for Early Metalworking in Central Thailand" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Non Pa Wai (NPW) is one of the three Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project sites in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley in Central Thailand. It yielded evidence for early millet farming (ca. 2300–1800 BCE) and for substantial copper smelting in later sequences (ca. 1200–500 BCE). Here we explore the...
Ketchup in the Times of Stress: An Analysis of Dietary Resilience in the Philippines, WWII-Onward (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food shortages and rationing during World War II brought about substantial changes in the ways in which peoples accessed and innovated cuisine across the Philippines. Focusing on these innovations helps underscore the dynamic nature of native dietary customs as they become subject to external political influences and social stress. Employing...
Looting and Salvage, A Typological Distinction (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Here we take the position that the systematic destruction of archaeological sites, often referred to as looting, should be understood not only as a site formation process that obscures the object of archaeological analysis, but also as an archeological behavior that can elucidate the social conditions of past peoples. Here we propose a modest...
Material Manifestations of Identity in Prisoner of War Camps (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While archaeological questions pertaining to the study of identity have been asked about groups living in historic times to the neolithic, archaeological studies have looked at the material manifestations of identity in locations of confinement from contemporary sites. In doing so, the question becomes not “how do these individuals identify” but...
Matériel Culture (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most studies of 20th-century conflict focus on the unprecedented destruction of people and places that was wrought during the wars. However, from an archaeological viewpoint, these conflicts were a time of proliferation of sites and items; some of these items include equipment and other supplies for the military and are herein termed “war matériel.”...
New AMS 14C Dates from Non Pa Wai: Insights on Stratigraphic Complexity at a Prehistoric Copper Smelting Site in Central Thailand (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Social and Environmental Context for Early Metalworking in Central Thailand" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Non Pa Wai (NPW), located in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley on the Lopburi Plain in Central Thailand, is a 5 ha. copper-smelting site with Bronze Age deposits that overlie an earlier Neolithic occupation. The deposits dating to the earliest settlement are capped by a caliche hardpan that was much disturbed by...
New Dates from Luang Prabang and Some Implications for the Culture History of Northern Laos (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) has investigated the archaeological record of Luang Prabang Province in northern Laos following an initial exploratory visit in 2001. A variety of research endeavors have since been undertaken, including surveys, test excavations at 4 cave/rockshelter sites, palaeoclimate...
Origins of the First Japanese Kingdom (Fifth BCE to Mid-Second Century CE), Born from Outlanders and Indigenous Inhabitants (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From late 6th century BCE to the 2nd century CE, various interactions between the Mumun-era southern Korea and Jomon-era are evident. The sea was not a barrier, but a valuable tool in migration, and trade relations between the content and western regions of Japanese archipelago via Tsushima and Iki islands. Interaction routes are seen through the movement...
Phu Lon and back again: following the steps of the Father of holistic Southeast Asian archaeometallurgy, Professor Vincent C. Pigott (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric metal artefacts have been studied archaeometrically since the outset of scientific archaeology in Thailand in the mid-1960s, sometimes by renowned archaeometallurgists like Bob Maddin, Cyril Stanley Smith, Igor Selimkhanov, Nigel Seeley and Tamara Stech Wheeler. However, it was only with the founding of...
Plant remains from Baset Village: A provincial Angkor archaeobotanical analysis (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A key aspect in understanding people’s lives in the past is to identify the relationships with their environments, and in particular, human-plant entanglements. Plants are important to Southeast Asian contexts as they have traditionally been used (and continue to be used) in day-to-day life for many things such as...
Political Cartographies: Colonial Mapmaking in the Philippines and the Implications for the Recovery of Missing Service Members from World War II (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Material Aspects of Global Conflict" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In contrast to the perception of cartographic progress, wherein the scientific mapping of the world becomes more accurate over time, historical map series inherently reflect political biases of their makers where specific information is prioritized, omitted, or overlooked. This is especially the case in regions with colonial histories where mapmaking...