Cutting a Gordian Knot: the Bronze Age of Southeast Asia: origins, timing and impact

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作者
Higham, Charles [1 ]
Higham, Thomas [2 ]
Kijngam, Amphan [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Otago, Dept Anthropol, Dunedin, New Zealand
[2] Univ Oxford, Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Oxford OX1 3QY, England
[3] Dept Fine Arts, Archaeol Div, Bangkok, Thailand
关键词
Southeast Asia; Ban Chiang; Ban Non War; Bronze Age; radiocarbon; Bayesian modeling; pottery; RADIOCARBON-DATES; POTTERY; BONE;
D O I
10.1017/S0003598X00067971
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Two conflicting theories put the introduction of bronze into Southeast Asia 1000 years apart, one (before China) at 2000 BC, the other at 1000 BC. Both were drawn from radiocarbon dates, the first of pottery, the second of bone. The authors cut the Gordian Knot by showing the earlier dates to be unreliable - but their study has implications way beyond Thailand. The direct dating of pottery, it seems, is fill of pitfalls ...
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页码:583 / 598
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