Searching for Bagan’s Peri-Urban Neighborhoods: Some Initial Results

Summary

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 IRAW@Bagan project is aimed at generating an integrated socioecological history for residential patterning, agricultural practices, and water management at the Classical Burmese (Bama) capital of Bagan, Myanmar (eleventh to fourteenth centuries CE) across a range of significant ecological, climatic, economic, sociopolitical, and religious changes. This objective is being achieved through a settlement archaeology study within the peri-urban (mixed urban-rural) settlement zone immediately surrounding Bagan’s walled and moated, regal-ritual *shwei myo taw, or epicenter. This discussion presents the results of the initial test excavations at the Shwe Creek and Otein Taung residential sites, with emphasis on the nature of occupation surfaces and the character of associated features, artifacts, and ecofacts.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia

Keywords

Spatial Coverage

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 30927