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Ban Chiang
Bang Chiang is an archeological site located in the Udon Thani province, Thailand. It is listed in the UNESCO world heritage list.
Discovered in 1957 it attracted enormous publicity due to attractive red painted pottery. The first scientific excavation was made in 1967 and uncovered several skeletons together with bronze grave gifts. Rice fragments have also been found, which prove that the bronze age settlement was made by farmers. The oldest graves found contain no bronze and are therefore from a neolithic culture; the latest ones are from the iron age.
The first datings of the artefacts using the thermoluminescence technique resulted in 4420 BC-3400 BC, which would have made the site the earliest ever bronze age culture of the world. However with the 1974/75 excavation enough material for radiocarbon dating became available, which resulted in much later dates - the earliest grave was at about 2100 BC, the latest of 1320 BC-1000 BC.
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Ban Chiang, a Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand: The Human Skeletal Remains (Thai Archaeo by Michael Pietrusewsky
Ban Chiang by University of Pennsylvania Press
Ban Chiang: Discovery of a Lost Bronze Age by University Museum of the Univ. of Pennsylvania
Zhui sui ban shi ji : Li Huan yu Jingguo xian sheng by Yinting Lin
Mµ Chan : sainam thi phanplian by T½anchai Dithet
Mao Zedong yu Jiang Jieshi : ban ge shi ji di jiao liang by Zhongguo dang an chu ban she Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing suo fa xing
Thai ceramics : Ban Chiang, Khmer, Sukothai, Sawankhalok by Art Gallery of South Australia
Cognition and design production in Ban Chiang painted pottery by Penny Van Esterik
Raingan kanwichai r½ang kanthopha ph½nm½ang khong sattri chonnabot nai phak tawan°ok chiang n½a : kans½ksa nai miti thang dan watthanat by Renu Khuptatsathian
Moradok Watthanatham Ban Chiang =: Ban Chiang Heritage by Suphawat
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