1 Introduction: History, Culture, and Art in Southeast Asia
2 Environments, Languages, Cultures, and People
3 Prehistory: 2 Million to 2 Thousand Years Ago.
4 Protoclassic Period: 1-600 CE
5 Early Classic, 600-900
6 Middle Classic, 900-1200
7 Late Classic, 1200-1400
8 Postclassic, 1400-1600
John N. Miksic is a Professor at the Southeast Asian Studies
Department of the National University of Singapore.
Goh Geok Yian is an Associate Professor at the History Programme of
the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
"John Miksic and Geok Yian Goh’s synthesis reflects a phenomenal
effort and impressive scholarship; it is just such work that may
inspire the next generation of archaeologists to research the past
of Southeast Asia." - Miriam T. Stark, Department of Anthropology,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA" (...) the authors have compiled
a detailed gazetteer of Southeast Asian archaeological sites,
ancient polities, artistic traditions, political economies, and
religion. Invaluable to students of Southeast Asian history." - E.
R. Swenson, University of Toronto "This book provides readers with
the most comprehensive overview of Southeast Asia’s archaeological
history since C.F.W. Higham’s (1989) seminal book, The Archaeology
of Mainland Southeast Asia. Moreover, Ancient Southeast Asia is the
first synthesis to encompass not only the mainland regions but also
Island Southeast Asia from Sumatra and Borneo to the Philippines. A
work of such breadth and scope demands rich scholarship, which has
been guaranteed by the authors’ enormous knowledge of the different
regional contexts and their acquaintance with the material and
textual evidence and the latest discoveries. The result is a highly
useful compilation, which will enable readers to understand the
dynamics of social-cultural evolution in a vast and geographically
fragmented region." - Dominik Bonatz, Freie Universität Berlin"John
Miksic and Geok Yian Goh successfully accomplish three remarkable
feats: delivering a highly accessible and sophisticated account of
how Southeast Asia evolved as a world region from prehistoric times
to AD 1600; providing a comprehensive research guide to the field
of pre-modern Southeast Asian history and historical archaeology;
and contributing important original insights to the theorisation of
Southeast Asian and world history. One of the most inspiring
achievements of this book is the authors’ enunciation of the notion
of ‘interaction spheres’ and consistent deployment of it as an
overarching analytical tool throughout the book.
Erudite and meticulously documented, this book is a foundational
text for students and scholars interested in Southeast Asian
history and archaeology, world history and Silk Road studies." -
Qiong Zhang,Wake Forest University, NC, AWE[Ancient Southeast Asia]
serves as a guide to the richness of archaeological knowledge in
Southeast Asia, and it helps to chart the course for research yet
to be done. - Sarah E. Klassen, Leiden University – American
Antiquity
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