Metallurgical traditions and metal exchange networks in late prehistoric central Myanmar, c. 1000 BC to c. 500 AD (original) (raw)

After a healthy start in the 1980s, the last decade has seen a resurgence of archaeometallurgical research in mainland Southeast Asia. Bronze Age (c. 1000 BC to c. 500 BC), Iron Age (c. 500 BC to c. 500 AD), historic (c. 500 to c. 1500 AD), and recent ethnographic primary and secondary production sites for ferrous and non-ferrous metals have received unprecedented attention, and enormous progress has been made on reconstructing regional metal exchange networks. The country notably under-represented in this coverage has been that of Myanmar, which is highly problematic because, like most of its neighbours, it is rich in both mineral and cultural resources. It is also Myanmar that, unique amongst its neighbours, shares borders with both modern day China and India, and as such is an essential territory for the understanding of long-range technological transmissions; movements of knowledge, objects and people that may have been catalysts for major socio-political change in the region. N...

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