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The highland of the Minangkabau community in Indonesia was the core
area of the realm of Sumatra's last Buddhist king, Adityavarman (c.
1347-75). An increasing socio-political integration, mentioned in
his inscriptions, is marked by ceremonial architecture, changes of
land use, and the establishment of an administration. Surveys and
excavations have yielded new archaeological evidence that changes
in settlement and socio-cultural patterns have occurred. New
technology-metallurgy and an irrigation system-has also emerged.
From the fourteenth century a territorial consolidation and
increasing socio-economic complexity are evidenced, which initiated
international trade and an incipient urbanisation process in this
highland region. This book analyses the rise of the settlement
system in the heartland of the Minangkabau region in the highlands
of West Sumatra. It explores the regional settlement pattern
arising from Adityavarman's highland interregnum, and provides the
first attempt to place the archaeological remains and the landscape
of Tanah Datar, a fertile plain in the highlands of West Sumatra,
in a cultural historic synthesis. The core of this research
consisted of excavations at Bukit Gombak and Bukit Kincir. Bukit
Gombak was a central place in Adityavarman's kingdom, and provides
evidence of the organisation and material development of this
political entity. Surveys in the Tanah Datar plain provided
evidence of other settlements that could be examined in relation to
each other and to sites from earlier and later periods, and used to
sketch out the settlement history of Tanah Datar from prehistoric
times to the precolonial period. The book consists of detailed
studies of metal, ceramics and glass finds by laboratory-based
specialists as well as careful descriptions of stone, clay and
other finds.
Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, the contributions gathered
in this volume focus particular attention on early state formation,
development of material cultures, and the transfer of iconographic
concepts from late perhistoric to historic times. With chapters on
the archaeology and history of the Indonesian archipelago, the
multi-directional flows of Buddhist art in Southeast Asia, art and
architecture of the Khmers, traditions and actions of various
ethnic groups, specific regional phenomena are addressed in order
to provide a resource for comparative perspectives. Connecting
Empires and States contains 29 papers presented at the 13th
International Conference of the European Association of Southeast
Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA). Held in Berlin in 2010, the
conference was jointly organised by the Institute of Ancient Near
Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the German
Archaeological Institute. The peer-reviewed proceedings bring
together archaeologists, art historians and philologists who share
a common interest in Southeast Asia's early past.
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