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From the Iron Age to Early Cities at Sri Ksetra and Beikthano, Myanmar
Author Stargardt, Janice
Source Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Volumev.47 n.3
Date2016.10
Pages341 - 365
PublisherDepartment of History, National University of Singapore
Publisher Url http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/publications/publications2_1.htm
LocationArts Link, Singapore
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
AbstractThis article traces the evolutionary record of urbanism at two sites in Myanmar: their transition from late prehistory in c. second to first century BCE to proto-urban and fully urban development at Sri Ksetra and Beikthano by the mid-first millennium CE. The Pyu cities are remarkable because of their spatial continuity, for their early achievements in water control, iron production, ritual and domestic ceramics, brick monumental architecture, rich funerary culture, literacy and adoption of Buddhism on both elite and popular levels. Though the radiocarbon dates for Pyu urbanism are at present earlier, they share many features with other urbanising societies in mainland Southeast Asia, where new chronologies are emerging for social and economic complexity at Dvaravati, Pre-Angkorian and Co Loa sites. The article provides new and specific evidence on the dates and types of contacts between the Pyu, India, and other areas of Southeast Asia to interrogate the meaning of Indianisation in Southeast Asia.
Table of contentsWho were the Pyu? 342
Water control and early urbanism at Beikthano and Sri Ksetra 344
Pyu funerary culture at Beikthano and Sri Ksetra: From prehistory to early urbanism 348
The first brick buildings 348
The stone burial urns of Sri Ksetra: The Vikramas 358
Early urban features at Sri Ksetra — iron, walls and water 359
Iron 359
Walls and water at Sri Ksetra 360
Conclusion 364
Transitions from Late Iron Age to early urbanism 364
ISSN00224634 (P); 14740680 (E)
DOI10.1017/S0022463416000230
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Created date2017.06.21
Modified date2019.12.20



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