Khok Charoen (Hill of Prosperity) is aneolithic burial ground in Central Thailand, excavated in the 1960s and 70s bythe Thai-British Archaeological Expedition, but because of the substantialAustralian contribution these excavations can rightly be called the firstAustralian venture into Southeast Asian archaeology. The site, dated to the latter half of thesecond and the beginning of the first millennium BC, consists of threecemeteries with a total of 65 burials, straddling a discontinuity caused byfloods, which greatly disturbed these burials and their finds, which include513 pots, but no bronze. The study of this pottery is the key to theunderstanding of the cultural and social history of the site, explainingkillings and grave robberies within a divided society. The aim of this book is to present, with thehelp of a great number of illustrations, an overall picture of this site at thejunction of Stone and Bronze.
- | Author: Helmut Loofs-Wissowa, John Crocker
- | Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
- | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 488 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/History
- | ISBN-10: 1407315064
- | ISBN-13: 9781407315065
