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Archaeology in Southeast Asia: Evolution of Culture

Evolution of Culture

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Emergence of Agriculture

Bellwood, Peter S. The First Farmers : the Origins of Agricultural Societies . Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005. Main GN799.A4 B45 2005

Badang, Dana, and Graeme Barker. Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia . Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2013. Asia DS597.3645 .R35 2013

Book Chapter

Barker, Graeme, and Candice Goucher. “Early Agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.” The Cambridge World History. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 411–444. Main D20 .C195 2014

Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia:: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation.” The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Canberra: ANU E Press, 2006. Main Reference-Library Use Only DU28.3 .A89 1995

 

Articles

Fuller, Dorian. “Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures.” Rice 4, no. 3-4 (December 2011): 78–92.

Denham, Tim. “Early Agriculture and Plant Domestication in New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia.(Report).” Current Anthropology 52, no. 5 (October 1, 2011).

Dal Martello, Rita, Rui Min, Chris Stevens, Charles Higham, Thomas Higham, Ling Qin, and Dorian Q Fuller. “Early Agriculture at the Crossroads of China and Southeast Asia: Archaeobotanical Evidence and Radiocarbon Dates from Baiyangcun, Yunnan.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 20 (August 2018): 711–721.

Gorman, Chester. “The Hoabinhian and after: Subsistence Patterns in Southeast Asia During the Late Pleistocene and Early Recent Periods.” World Archaeology: Subsistence 2, no. 3 (February 1, 1971): 300–320. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438243.1971.9979482.

Hutterer, Karl Leopold. “The Natural and Cultural History of Southeast Asian Agriculture: Ecological and Evolutionary Considerations.” Anthropos 78, no. 1/2 (January 1, 1983): 169–212.

Denham, Tim, and Simon Haberle. “Agricultural Emergence and Transformation in the Upper Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea, During the Holocene: Theory, Method and Practice.” The Holocene 18, no. 3 (May 2008): 481–496.

Emergence of Metallurgy

Higham, Charles. The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia . Cambridge [England] ;: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Asia DS523 .H55 1995

Glover, Ian, Pornchai Suchitta., and John. Villiers. Early Metallurgy, Trade and Urban Centres in Thailand and Southeast Asia : 13 Archaeological Essays . Bangkok: White Lotus, 1992. Asia DS523 .E27 1992

Bronson, Bennet, and Phisit Čharœ̄nwong. Eyewitness Accounts of the Early Mining and Smelting of Metals in Mainland Southeast Asia . Bangkok, Thailand: Thailand Academic Pub., 1986. Asia TN19 .B76 1986

 

Articles

White, Joyce, and Elizabeth Hamilton. “The Transmission of Early Bronze Technology to Thailand: New Perspectives.” Journal of World Prehistory 22, no. 4 (December 2009): 357–397.

Stech, T, R Maddin, and T Stech. “Reflections on Early Metallurgy in Southeast Asia.” Bull. Met. Mus 11 (January 1, 1986): 43–56. http://search.proquest.com/docview/24226873/.

Loofs-Wissowa, H, Donn Bayard, and Pisit Charoenwongsa. “Development (The) and Spread of Metallurgy in Southeast Asia.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 1983): 1–31. http://search.proquest.com/docview/839176226/.

Bayard, Donn. “Agriculture, Metallurgy, and State Formation in Mainland Southeast Asia.” Current Anthropology 25, no. 1 (February 1, 1984): 103–105.

Biggs, Lynn, Bérénice Bellina, Marcos Martinón-Torres, and Thomas Pryce. “Prehistoric Iron Production Technologies in the Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula: Metallography and Slag Inclusion Analyses of Iron Artefacts from Khao Sam Kaeo and Phu Khao Thong.” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 5, no. 4 (December 2013): 311–329.

Higham, Charles, Thomas Higham, Roberto Ciarla, Katerina Douka, Amphan Kijngam, and Fiorella Rispoli. “The Origins of the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia.” Journal of World Prehistory 24, no. 4 (December 2011): 227–274.

Early States

Day, Tony. Fluid Iron : State Formation in Southeast Asia . Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2002. Asia JQ750.A58 D393 2002

O’Reilly, Dougald J. W. Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia . Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2007. Asia DS523.2 .O73 2007

Hall, Kenneth R. Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. Asia HF3790.8 .H35 1985

Higham, Charles. The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Asia GN778.32.C36 H54 2013

Book Chapter

Kerbo, Harold R, Rae Lesser Blumberg, and Samuel Cohn. “The State and Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia: The Advantage of an Ancient Civilization.” Development in Crisis: Threats to Human Well-Being in the Global South and Global North. 1st ed. Routledge, 2016. 66–83. 

Albarella, Umberto et al. “Farming, Social Change, and State Formation in Southeast Asia.” The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Articles

Stark, Miriam, and S. Allen. “The Transition to History in Southeast Asia: An Introduction.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2, no. 3 (September 1998): 163–174.

Allen, Jane. “Inland Angkor, Coastal Kedah: Landscapes, Subsistence Systems and State Development in Early Southeast Asia.” Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 16, no. 0 (January 1, 1997).

Wisseman Christie, Jan. “State Formation in Early Maritime Southeast Asia; A Consideration of the Theories and the Data” (April 1, 1995).

Wong, Pak Nung. “Following the Grain: State Formation and Trans-Local Grain-Trading Networks in the Philippines.” Journal of Contemporary Asia 41, no. 4 (November 1, 2011): 584–609. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00472336.2011.610615.

Stark, Miriam T. “Early Mainland Southeast Asian Landscapes in the First Millennium A.D.” 35, no. 1 (October 21, 2006): 407–432.