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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Aggrandisers and the first copper-base metallurgy in Southeast Asia
Contributor:
Higham, Charles
Published:
Antiquity Publications, 2024
Published in:
Antiquity, 98 (2024) 398, Seite 433-453
Language:
English
DOI:
10.15184/aqy.2024.11
ISSN:
0003-598X;
1745-1744
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>The settlement of Ban Non Wat charts the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in north-eastern Thailand. Examination of grave inclusions and mortuary treatment at this important site allows insights into social change during this key period. Increasing complexity and the inclusion of exotic items in the mortuary treatment of some individuals early in the Bronze Age is suggested to show the rise of a lineage of aggrandisers who controlled access to these symbolic articles. But, the author argues, their elevated status was ephemeral, forfeited as local bronze casting became established.</jats:p>