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Excavation of Khok Phanom Di: Vol 5
by N G Tayles
This volume describes and discusses the skeletal evidence from the graves excavated at the site (the subject of a previous volume) in terms of the morphology, nutrition, dental and skeletal health, disease, demographics and funerary customs of the people that inhabited this site between c.2000-1500 BC. The excellent preservation of organic material including bone, food remains and coprolites allowed a detailed reconstruction of the changing lives ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00
Origins of Angkor Vol 1: Ban Lum Khao
by Charles Higham
Ban Lum Khao is a prehistoric settlement in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, northeast Thailand. Excavations in 1995-6 revealed a cultural sequence that began in the late Neolithic, followed by three mortuary phases covering the Bronze Age. This report describes the excavation, chronology, the material culture, human remains and social structure of the prehistoric inhabitants. It is the first volume in a series reporting on the research programme "The ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
The Excavation of Khok Phanom Di: A Prehistoric Site in Central Thailand, Vol 4: Subsistence and Environment: the Botanical Evidence. The Botanical Remains (Part II)
by G. B. Thompson
This is the fourth in a series of volumes repporting on the material recovered from the excavation of the prehistoric site of Khok Phanom Di. The author worked throughout on the recovery of botanical remains. Most came from the flotation of soil samples ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £38.00, Our Price GB £24.95
The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor, Volume 4: The Excavation of Ban Non Wat. Part II: the Neolithic Occupation
edited by C. F. W. Higham and A. Kijngam, with contributions by C. F. W. Higham, A. Kijngam, T. Boer-Mah, J. Cameron, T. F. G. Higham, R. Thosarat, W. Wiriyaromp and K. McClintock
This volume reports on the initial settlement of Ban Non Wat and represents a further step towards illuminating the prehistoric societies of the upper Mun Valley during the two millennia of cultural changes that led ultimately to the swift transition to the state as represented at Phimai and beyond, to the civilisation of Angkor. It begins by describing the mortuary sequence. One of the many surprises encountered during the excavations was the ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £50.00
Ancient Sukhothai: Thailand's Cultural Heritage
by Dawn F. Rooney
Intended primarily as a guide book, but well illustrated enough that it functions almost as well without having the monuments in front of you, this book introduces the reader to the cultural achievements of the early Kingdom of Sukhotai, which flourished in northern Thailand in the 13th and 14th centuries. An introductory section outlines the history and Buddhist beliefs of the civilization, as well as its archaeology. The main part of the book ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.95
South-East Asia
The `lost' city of Angkor came to light in the middle of Cambodian jungle in the late 16th century. Years later and following numerous investigations, the true architectural history of the site and the nature of its people are only now being realised. ...
Hardback. Price GB £8.99
Hardback. Price GB £18.99
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
by Michael Coe
Angkor was the capital city of the Khmer civilisation flourishing in southeast Asia from AD802 onwards and at its centre was Angkor Wat, the largest religious structure in the world. This book provides a concise yet comprehensive study of Angkor from its prehistoric origins to the 19th century. Michael Coe uses up-to-date archaeological research to trace the history of the Khmer people and their culture and society, as well as thier language, the ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.95
Hardback. Price GB £27.50
Stable Isotopic Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen as an Indicator of Paleodietary Change among the Pre-state Metal Age Societies in Northeast Thailand
by Christopher A King
Using northeast Thailand as a model, this work uses stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen to infer paleodietary change in subtropical monsoon Asia. It is hypothesized that in northeast Thailand during the pre-state Metal Age (2000 B.C. to A.D. 500) there ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.00
The Art and Architecture of Thailand
by Hiram Woodward
With so few books being written about Thai history, Hiram Woodward's work is a great leap forward in improving our knowledge about art and architecture in Thailand from prehistory to the 14th century. Comprehensive and incisive, it provides a detailed ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £110.00
Making Merit, Making Art: A Thai Temple in Wimbledon
by Sandra Cate
Between 1984 and 1992, 26 Thai artists created a series of murals at the Wat Buddhapadipa, a Thai Buddhist temple in Wimbledon. Sandra Cate investigates the murals as social portraiture and examines the ongoing dialectic between the real and the imaginary ...
Hardback. Temporarily out of stock at publishers - will be delayed. Orders will be recorded. Price GB £35.50
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