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The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
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Southeast Asia ranks among the most significant regions in the
world for tracing the prehistory of human endeavor over a period in
excess of two million years. It lies in the direct path of
successive migrations from the African homeland that saw settlement
by hominin populations such as Homo erectus and Homo floresiensis.
The first Anatomically Modern Humans, following a coastal route,
reached the region at least 60,000 years ago to establish a hunter
gatherer tradition that survives to this day in remote forests.
From about 2000 BC, human settlement of Southeast Asia was deeply
affected by successive innovations that took place to the north and
west, such as rice and millet farming. A millennium later,
knowledge of bronze casting penetrated along the same pathways.
Copper mines were identified and exploited, and metals were
exchanged over hundreds of kilometers. In the Mekong Delta and
elsewhere, these developments led to early states of the region,
which benefitted from an agricultural revolution involving
permanent ploughed rice fields. These developments illuminate how
the great early kingdoms of Angkor, Champa, and Funan came to be, a
vital stage in understanding the roots of the present nation states
of Southeast Asia. Assembling the most current research across a
variety of disciplines-from anthropology and archaeology to
history, art history, and linguistics-The Oxford Handbook of Early
Southeast Asia will present an invaluable resource to experienced
researchers and those approaching the topic for the first time.
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