Recent Advances in the Settlement and Landscape Archaeology of Southwest China and Southeast Asia Part I: The Macro Perspective: Spatial Analysis and Subsistence Systems
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
Since the beginnings of archaeological research in Southwest China and Southeast Asia, the focus has largely been on burial material. Whereas the burial customs, personal decoration, and weapon and tool assemblages that accompanied the deceased are by now fairly well known, the world of the living is far less well explored. During the last few years, however, there has been increasing interest in the settlement archaeology of the region, ranging from smaller-scale investigations of sites, to a broader landscape approach. A considerable number of field projects throughout Southwest China and Southeast Asia have greatly advanced our understanding of the daily lives of prehistoric and early historic inhabitants of the area. This session assembles papers that introduce some of the results of these research projects, providing an overview of our current knowledge in this field and pointing out new avenues of research. The first part of the session takes on the macro perspective of large-scale spatial analysis and long-term developments.
Other Keywords
Landscape Archaeology •
Settlement archaeology •
Palynology •
Remote Sensing •
Settlement Pattern •
Survey •
Shell Mounds •
Gis •
Empires •
archaeobotany
Geographic Keywords
East/Southeast Asia
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- Documents (10)
- Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: What have we learned so far (2015)
- Early Subsistence Practices at Prehistoric Dadunzi in Yuanmou, Yunnan: New Evidence for the Origins of Early Agriculture in Southwest China (2015)
- The Environmental History of Settlement at Co Loa, Vietnam: A Preliminary Pollen Sequence (2015)
- Environmental Preconditions and Human Response: Subsistence Practices at Prehistoric Settlement Sites in the Liangshan Area, Southwest China (2015)
- Evaluating the Sustainability of an Angkor-Period Engineered Landscape at Koh Ker, Cambodia (2015)
- Grounding an underground survey: Paddy fields and monumental Bronze Age shell-scapes in the Dian Basin, Yunnan, China (2015)
- Hydraulic Nodes of Empire - Redux: Evaluating the role of artificial water tanks as indicators of territorial control in Cambodia’s medieval landscape (6th to 15th c. CE) (2015)
- "Reconstructing" an archaeological landscape of NW Cambodia beyond the borders of the Greater Angkor using satellite imaging. (2015)
- Sites, survey, and ceramics: a GIS-based approach to modeling early prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand (2015)
- Societies and environmental transformations in early modern Yunnan: A spatial analysis of written sources and oral histories (2015)