Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History

ISBN-13: 9780415297776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 388 str.

Ian Glover; Ian Glover

Opis

This comprehensive and absorbing book traces the cultural history of Southeast Asia from prehistoric (especially Neolithic, Bronze-Iron age) times through to the major Hindu and Buddhist civilizations, to around AD 1300. Southeast Asia has recently attracted archaeological attention as the locus for the first recorded sea crossings; as the region of origin for the Austronesian population dispersal across the Pacific from Neolithic times; as an arena for the development of archaeologically-rich Neolithic, and metal using communities, especially in Thailand and Vietnam, and as the backdrop for several unique and strikingly monumental Indic civilizations, such as the Khmer civilization centred around Angkor. Southeast Asia is invaluable to anyone interested in the full history of the region.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors  List of Illustrations  Foreword  Introduction  1. Southeast Asia: Foundations for an Archaeological History  2. The Origins and Dispersals of Agricultural Communities in Southeast Asia: Commencing In Southern China About 8000 Years Ago   3. Mainland Southeast Asia from the Neolithic to the Iron Age  4. The Archaeology of Early Contact with India and the Mediterranean  5. The Archaeology Of Pre-Angkorean And Angkorean Cambodia  6. The Archaeology of the Early Buddhist Kingdoms of Thailand  7. The Archaeology of Burma/Myanmar  8. The Archaeology of Viet Nam  9. The Archaeology of the Indianised States of Champa (Southern Vietnam)  10. The Archaeology of the Hindu-Buddhist Civilisations of Indonesia  11. The Archaeology of the Philippine Islands  12. The Archaeology of the Maritime States of Southeast Asia During the First Millennium AD  13. Indigenous Traditions and Extraneous Influences in the Early History of Peninsular Malaysia  14. Retrospect and Prospect  Index

O autorze

Ian Glover is Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He has undertaken excavations in East Timor, Sulawesi, Western Thailand and Central Vietnam on periods ranging from Late Pleistocene cave deposits, Iron Age cemeteries and the emerging Cham Civilization of Central Vietnam. His academic interests include early technologies of bronze, iron and glass and the effects of inter-regional trade on cultural evolution.
Peter Bellwood is Professor of Archaeology at the Australian National University in Canberra. He has carried out field research since 1967 in Southeast Asia (Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) and numerous Polynesian islands. He has a special interest in archaeological and linguistic aspects of Austronesian prehistory in both Southeast Asia and Oceania, and in the prehistories of early farming populations in all parts of the world.