Old Bones, New Data: Pigs and Dogs from Prehistoric Non Pa Wai, Lopburi Province, Central Thailand in a Regional Context

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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 1980s and 1990s, excavations by the Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project (TAP) at prehistoric Non Pa Wai in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley of central Thailand produced a large assemblage of animal bones. These include many pig and dog bones that provide evidence for management for food. Since their initial analysis, excavations at comparably-aged sites elsewhere including Man Bac and An Son, Vietnam, and Ban Non Wat, Thailand, have provided comparative contexts to examine dietary breadth and subsistence from a regional perspective across mainland Southeast Asia. DNA research into origins and relationships between domestic animals provide another source of data for amplifying understanding of human migrations in shaping regional history. These analytical opportunities enlarge our understanding of the variability in animal husbandry strategies as subsistence articulates with other facets of the domestic economy, such as agriculture and craft production. Representative assemblages from comparable sites elsewhere in mainland Southeast Asia allow us to examine animal husbandry on multiple scales.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Paradigms Shift: New Interpretations in Mainland Southeast Asian Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23588