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Murphy, Stephen A and Stark, Miriam T (2016) 'Introduction: Transitions from late prehistory to early historic periods in mainland Southeast Asia, c. early to mid-first millennium CE.' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 47 (3). pp. 333-340.

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Abstract

Studies of early Southeast Asia focus largely on its ‘classical states’, when rulers and their entourages from Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (Thailand), Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar), Champa and Dai Viet (Vietnam) clashed, conquered, and intermarried one another over an approximately six-century-long quest for legitimacy and political control. Scholarship on Southeast Asia has long held that such transformations were largely a response to outside intervention and external events, or at least that these occurred in interaction with a broader world system in which Southeast Asians played key roles. As research gathered pace on the prehistory of the region over the past five decades or so, it has become increasingly clear that indigenous Southeast Asian cultures grew in sophistication and complexity over the Iron Age in particular. This has led archaeologists to propose much greater agency in regard to the selective adaptation of incoming Indic beliefs and practices than was previously assumed under early scholarship of the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth century.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Southeast Asian Archaeology, Prehistory, History
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Arts > Department of the History of Art & Archaeology
ISSN: 00224634
Copyright Statement: This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 47 (3). pp. 333-340. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463416000229 This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The National University of Singapore 2016
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463416000229
Date Deposited: 14 Dec 2020 12:24
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/34534
Related URLs: https://www.cam ... 23E4DCB3EA1FDC1 (Organisation URL)

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