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Southeast Asia ranks among the most significant regions in the world for tracing the prehistory of human endeavor over a period in excess of two million years. It lies in the direct path of successive migrations from the African homeland that saw settlement by hominin populations such as Homo
erectus and Homo floresiensis. The first Anatomically Modern Humans, following a coastal route, reached the region at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter gatherer tradition that survives to this day in remote forests. From about 2000 BC, human settlement of Southeast Asia was deeply affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and west, such as rice and millet farming. A millennium later, knowledge of bronze casting penetrated along the same pathways. Copper mines were identified and exploited,
and metals were exchanged over hundreds of kilometers. In the Mekong Delta and elsewhere, these developments led to early states of the region, which benefitted from an agricultural revolution involving permanent ploughed rice fields. These developments illuminate how the great early kingdoms of
Angkor, Champa, and Funan came to be, a vital stage in understanding the roots of the present nation states of Southeast Asia. Assembling the most current research across a variety of disciplines--from anthropology and archaeology to history, art history, and linguistics--The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia will present an invaluable resource to experienced researchers and those approaching the topic for the first
time.
Sommario
- Introduction
- Charles F. W. Higham and Nam C. Kim
- 1. Humans in Island Southeast Asia Prior to Homo Sapiens Settlement, With Special Reference to Java Island
- François Sémah, Anne-Marie Sémah, Truman Simanjuntak, and Harry Widianto
- 2. Homo floresiensis
- Matthew W. Tocheri, Thomas Sutikna, Jatmiko, E. Wahyu Saptomo
- 3. The Archaeogenetics of Southeast Asia
- Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, Teresa Rito, Martin B. Richards
- 4. The early settlement of Island Southeast Asia
- Graeme Barker
- 5. Stone Industries of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia
- David Bulbeck and Ben Marwick
- 6. The Hoabinhian: The Late and Post-Pleistocene Cultural Systems of Southeast Asia
- Rasmi Shoocongdej
- 7. Later hunter-gatherers in Guangxi Province
- Xie Guangmao
- 8. The Neolithic of Vietnam
- Philip J. Piper, Lâm Thi My Dung, Nguyen Khánh Trung Kiên, and Peter Bellwood
- 9. Coastal Settlement in Thailand
- Charles F. W. Higham
- 10. Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Variability in Vietnam
- Marc F. Oxenham, Anna Willis, Lân Cuong Nguyen, and Hirofumi Matsumura
- 11. Community and kinship during the transition to agriculture in Northern Vietnam
- Damien Huffer, R. Alexander Bentley, Marc F Oxenham
- 12. Cereals of Southeast Asia
- Dorian Q. Fuller and Cristina Castillo
- 13. Language Families of Southeast Asia
- Laurent Sagart
- 14. The expansion of rice and millet farmers into Southeast Asia
- Fiorella Rispoli
- 15. The Neolithic of Mainland Southeast Asia
- Charles F.W. Higham
- 16. The Expansion of Farmers into Island Southeast Asia
- Peter Bellwood
- 17. The Origins of the Bronze Age in Mainland Southeast Asia
- Roberto Ciarla
- 18. Social change with the initial Bronze Age
- Charles F.W. Higham
- 19. Prehistoric Copper Production and Exchange in Southeast Asia
- Vincent C. Pigott and Thomas Oliver Pryce
- 20. Southeast Asian evidence for early maritime Silk Roads exchange and trade-related polities
- Bérénice Bellina
- 21. Social Change in Southeast Asia during the Iron Age
- Charles F.W. Higham
- 22. A New Chrono-Cultural Approach to the Iron Age in Myanmar
- Anne-Sophie Coupey and Jean-Pierre Pautreau
- 23. The Dongson Culture of Vietnam
- Nam C. Kim
- 24. The Sa Huynh culture and related cultures in Southern Vietnam and Cambodia
- Andreas Reinecke
- 25. The Iron Age in Central Thailand
- Fiorella Rispoli
- 26. The Dian Culture in Southwest China
- TzeHuey Chiou-Peng
- 27. The Co Loa Polity in Northern Vietnam
- Nam C. Kim
- 28. Mainland Southeast Asia's Earliest Kingdoms and the Case of "Funan"
- Pierre-Yves Manguin and Miriam T. Stark
- 29. Early States in Myanmar
- Bob Hudson
- 30. Early states in Thailand: Dvaravati
- Wesley Clarke and Matthew Gallon
- 31. Angkor: A provisional map history of Greater Angkor from ancestry to transformation.
- Roland Fletcher and Christophe Pottier
- 32. Champa
- William A. Southworth
- 33. The Civilisations of Central and East Java and Bali.
- John N. Miksic
- 34. Early States of Insular Southeast Asia
- Pierre-Yves Manguin
- 35. Srivijaya
- Pierre-Yves Manguin
- 36. The Prehistory of the Philippines
- Eusebio Dizon
- 37. Perspectives on Maritime Archaeology in Southeast Asia
- Charlotte Pham, Veronica Walker Vadillo, and Jennifer Craig
- 38. Community Engagement and Cultural Heritage in Southeast Asian Archaeology
- Stephen Acabado, Adam Lauer, and Marlon Martin
- Index
Info autore
C.F.W. Higham is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Otago, whose previous books include The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia and The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor.
Nam C. Kim is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of The Origins of Ancient Vietnam.
Riassunto
This handbook collects expert surveys of the prehistory of Southeast Asia, a two-millennial span that began with the arrival of now extinct humans and ended with the great civilization of Angkor (9th to 15th century).
