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| List of illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronological table | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Aspects of diversity | |
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| The personality of Southeast Asia | |
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| The history of archaeology in Southeast Asia | |
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| Themes and approaches | |
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| Hunter-gatherer communities and early domestication | |
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| The coast and hills of Bac Bo | |
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| Coastal groups in Viet Nam | |
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| A hunting and gathering tradition in the North Thai uplands | |
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| The Northern Thai uplands: summary | |
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| The hunter-gatherer occupation of the Chao Phraya plains | |
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| Coastal settlement round the Gulf of Siam | |
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| Domestication | |
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| The expansion of domestic communities | |
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| The Khorat plateau | |
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| A general cultural framework | |
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| Non Nok Tha | |
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| Ban Chiang | |
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| Ban Na Di | |
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| Other excavated sites in the northern Khorat plateau | |
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| The southern Khorat plateau: Ban Chiang Hian and related sites | |
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| Dating General Periods A and B | |
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| The subsistence basis of General Periods A and B | |
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| The human remains | |
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| The material culture of General Periods A and B | |
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| The social organisation | |
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| The lower Chao Phraya valley | |
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| The lower Mekong and its hinterland | |
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| The coastal plains of Central Viet Nam | |
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| The Bac Bo Region | |
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| The expansion of domestic communities and the adoption of bronze-working | |
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| The end of autonomy and emergence of chiefdoms | |
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| Bac Bo: the Dong Son phase | |
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| The Chao Phraya plains | |
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| The Khorat plateau | |
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| The uplands of Laos | |
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| The Vietnamese coastal plains | |
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| The transition from autonomy to centrality | |
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| The development of mandalas | |
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| India and China | |
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| Geographic regions which sustained mandalas | |
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| The lower Mekong and the delta: A.D. c 100-550 | |
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| The delta mandalas: summary | |
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| Mandalas of the middle Mekong and the Tonle Sap plains: A.D. 550-802 | |
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| Zhenla mandalas: summary | |
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| The Dvaravati mandalas of the Chao Phraya plains and their antecedants: A.D. 200-950 | |
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| The Mun and Chi valleys in Northeast Thailand | |
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| The Han: three border commanderies | |
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| Bac Bo | |
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| The mandalas of Champa | |
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| The dynastic history of Linyi | |
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| The archaeological remains of Linyi: the Cham mandalas | |
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| Champa: summary | |
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| The formative stages of Southeast Asian civilisation: a review | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Angkorian Mandala | |
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| The dynastic history and main historic events | |
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| Taxation | |
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| The means of destruction | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| The pursuit of perfection | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |