Euraseaa14 Volume II: Material Culture and Heritage Helen Lewis Is an Associate Professor at University College Dublin School of Archaeology
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Helen Lewis (ed) Helen Lewis EurASEAA14 Volume II This is one of two volumes comprising papers originally presented at EurASEAA14 in 2012, updated to late 2019 for publication. The aim of EurASEAA - the European Association of Material Culture and Heritage Southeast Asian Archaeologists - is to facilitate communication between different disciplines, to present current work in the field, and to stimulate future research. This international initiative aims to foster international scholarly cooperation in the field of Southeast Asian archaeology, Papers from the Fourteenth International art history and philology. This volume focuses substantially on topics under the broad themes Conference of the European Association of of archaeology and heritage, material culture, environmental archaeology, osteoarchaeology, historic and prehistoric archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and long-distance contact, trade and Southeast Asian Archaeologists exchange. EurASEAA14 Volume II: Material Culture and Heritage Culture II: Material EurASEAA14 Volume Helen Lewis is an associate professor at University College Dublin School of Archaeology. Her Edited by research in Southeast Asia has mostly focused on cave sites in Laos, Malaysian Borneo, and the Philippine island of Palawan, where she co-directs the Palawan Island Palaeohistory Research Helen Lewis Project. She chaired the EurASEAA14 Conference in Dublin in 2012. Email: [email protected]. Access Archaeology aeopr ch es r s A A y c g c e o l s o s e A a r c Ah Archaeopress Access Archaeology www.archaeopress.com About Access Archaeology Access Archaeology offers a different publishing model for specialist academic material that might traditionally prove commercially unviable, perhaps due to its sheer extent or volume of colour content, or simply due to its relatively niche field of interest. This could apply, for example, to a PhD dissertation or a catalogue of archaeological data. 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This model may well evolve over time, but its ambition will always remain to publish archaeological material that would prove commercially unviable in traditional publishing models, without passing the expense on to the academic (author or reader). aeopr ch es r s A A y c g c e o l s o s e A a r c Ah EurASEAA14 Volume II Material Culture and Heritage Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists Edited by Helen Lewis Access Archaeology aeopr ch es r s A A y c g c e o l s o s e A a r c Ah Archaeopress Publishing Ltd Summertown Pavilion 18-24 Middle Way Summertown Oxford OX2 7LG www.archaeopress.com ISBN 978-1-78969-593-9 ISBN 978-1-78969-594-6 (e-Pdf) © the individual authors and Archaeopress 2020 All images by individual authors, except where noted. Cover image: Conor McDermott, from an image by Helen Lewis; ‘face pot’ from the Dewil Valley, Palawan, Philippines. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owners. This book is available direct from Archaeopress or from our website www.archaeopress.com Contents Dedication ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������iii Contributors ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� iv Editorial introduction to EurASEAA14 Volumes 1 and 2 �������������������������������������������������������������� vii Helen Lewis Ceramics from the Musi riverbed ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 1 John N. Miksic The social dynamics of porcelain trade in the eleventh to sixteenth centuries CE Philippines: a chemical composition study �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������10 Rory Dennison and Laura Junker The kilns of Myinkaba – for pottery or glass? �������������������������������������������������������������������������������22 Don Hein and W. Ross H. Ramsay The iron smelting technology of the Bujang Valley, Malaysia ������������������������������������������������������41 Naizatul Akma Mokhtar and Mokhtar Saidin Guide to understanding Khmer stoneware characteristics, Angkor, Cambodia ��������������������������53 Chhay Rachna, Tho Thon and Em Socheata New data on the chronology of Khmer stonewares �����������������������������������������������������������������������63 Armand Desbat The conical rollers of Ban Non Wat, northeastern Thailand ��������������������������������������������������������76 Christina Sewall Late Pleistocene/Holocene ecological and cultural transition in the Philippines ������������������������89 Jonathan H. Kress Middle Pleistocene sites in Bukit Bunuh, Lenggong, Perak, Malaysia ������������������������������������������96 Nor Khairunnisa Talib, Mokhtar Saidin and Jeffrey Abdullah† Metabolism, mythology, magic or metaphor? Animals in the rock art of Thailand ������������������107 Lauren Winch Tooth blackening and betel nut chewing at the Early Iron Age sites of Gò Ô Chùa (Vietnam) and Prohear (Cambodia) ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������120 Simone Krais, Michael Francken and Andreas Reinecke The cultural and biological context of the Song Keplek 5 specimen, East Java: implications for living conditions and human-environment interactions during the later Holocene �����������133 Sofwan Noerwidi, Harry Widianto and Truman Simanjuntak i Probable prehistoric Southeast Asian influences in New Guinea? New archaeological and anthropological approaches to former axioms ���������������������������������������������������������������������������144 Henry Dosedla Ancient settlement in the lakes area of East Java Province, Indonesia: the potential for archaeological research with public benefits ������������������������������������������������������������������������������150 Gunadi Kasnowihardjo The relevance of archaeology to contemporary concerns: the Department of Agriculture of the Philippines and ancient foodways �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������159 Michelle S. Eusebio Toward an understanding of cultural heritage and sustainable management: a case study from Phrae Province, Thailand ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������172 Mizuho Ikeda Bibliography ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������183 ii Dedication This volume is dedicated to five EurASEAA colleagues. Mike Morwood, who passed away in 2013, had been planning to come to EurASEAA14 to give a public lecture but had to cancel because of illness. He would have given the major lecture from the conference related to the Dublin European City of Science Year, talking about – what else? – the spectacular finding of Homo floresiensis, for which he and his colleagues were world famous. An obituary for Prof Morwood written by Iain Davidson, a colleague at the University of New England, can be found at: <http://www. humanities.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AAH-Obit-Morwood-2013.pdf>. Wilhelm Solheim II passed away in 2014. Prof Solheim is best known for his work on trade and exchange in later prehistoric island and mainland Southeast Asia, such as the Nusantao Trade and Exchange Network. He was also one of the founders of institutions in Southeast Asian archaeology, such as the IPPA Congress and the Asian Perspectives journal. After retiring from an academic career at the University of Hawai’i, in his later years he was based at the University of Philippines, where he encouraged