A late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC interaction arc between Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China: Archaeometallurgical data from Hebosuo and Shangxihe, Yunnan

Pryce, Thomas Oliver; Lam, Wengcheong; Cadet, Mélissa; Jiang, Zhilong; Yang, Wei; Yao, Alice

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2022.105612

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“…Although the source of radiogenic lead needs more in-depth research, its distribution reveals another potential route for north-south communication from the Central Plains (the Shang dynasty) and the Wei River Valley (the Zhou dynasty) to Hanzhong, Sichuan (the Sanxingdui culture), and Yunnan (Liu et al, 2021). Meanwhile, lead isotopic analysis, together with the widespread use of bronze drums with vivid and unique decorations in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Southeast Asia, points to close contact—in terms of material culture and raw metal resources – for these regions (Pryce and Bellina, 2018; Pryce et al, 2022) despite not yet having identified the exact routes.…”

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“…In addition, the rise of metallurgy in Southeast Asia is particularly pertinent to the north-south routes of communication between China and mainland Southeast Asia across Southwest China (e.g. Higham et al, 2011; Pryce et al, 2022). Therefore, we can outline the interaction between China, South Asia, and Southeast Asia through the distribution of these elements in China, South, and Southeast Asia.…”

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Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age

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et al. 2022

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The emergence and intensification of transcontinental exchange during both the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age profoundly influenced the social history of Eurasia. While scholars have intensively discussed east-west long-distance communication along the proto-Silk Road, the north-south transport networks that connected China to South and Southeast Asia during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age have attracted much less attention in the scholarly literature based on archeological science data. In this paper, we find new radiocarbon dates from 11 Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in northwestern and central Yunnan in Southwest China, a key entrance into South and Southeast Asia from China. Combined with previously published archeological records and radiocarbon dates, we attempt to disentangle and understand the timing and routes of the networks linking China to South and Southeast Asia during the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. We propose three north-south land routes that played essential roles in the cultural exchanges in addition to the proto-Silk Road and maritime routes. This includes the trans-Himalayan routes, trans-Hengduan Mountain routes, and the trans-Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau routes. The north-south exchange between China and South and Southeast Asia probably emerged in the fifth millennium BP (before the present) mainly through a low-frequency trans-Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau and trans-Himalayan routes. The exchange frequency significantly increased after the fourth millennium BP, with the synchronous development of the three primary north-south passageways. Trans-Hengduan routes might have been the most crucial artery connecting China and South and Southeast Asia during 3000–2200 BP, but more archeological records are needed to understand the detailed evolution of these transport networks.

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Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age

Dong

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“…The combined data presented here do indicate, we argue, that Myanmar experienced interactions with East Asia during the Neolithic that differed from those of the rest of MSEA, seemingly dominated by the migration of Austroasiatic speaking populations into Vietnam and Thailand. This potential for variation in MSEA cultural transmission pathways and chronologies is also indicated for the Bronze Age transition, with metal provenance research showing the likelihood of direct contact with Yunnan as well as indirect contact with Thailand and Laos in the late second millennium BC Pryce et al 2018bPryce et al , 2021Pryce et al , 2022Pryce et al , 2023.…”

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“…This close chronological patterning indicates that north-central Myanmar was tightly integrated within broader regional interaction networks of the late second millennium BC, as exemplified by early metal exchange networks (Pryce et al . 2022; 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This potential for variation in MSEA cultural transmission pathways and chronologies is also indicated for the Bronze Age transition, with metal provenance research showing the likelihood of direct contact with Yunnan as well as indirect contact with Thailand and Laos in the late second millennium BC (Pryce 2018; Pryce et al . 2018b, 2021, 2022, 2023).…”

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Late prehistoric and early historic chronology of Myanmar: a four-millennia sequence from Halin

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Pradier,

Favereau

et al. 2024

Antiquity

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Myanmar is located within an important geographic corridor of prehistoric demographic and technological exchange, yet relatively few archaeological sites have been securely dated. Here, the authors present a new radiocarbon chronology for Halin, a UNESCO-listed complex in the north-central Sagaing Division of Myanmar, which contributes to the generation of nuanced regional chronologies and to improving the temporal resolution of Southeast Asia more generally. Discussion of 94 radiocarbon determinates, together with site stratigraphy and pottery traditions, provides a chronological sequence from the early third millennium BC to the early second millennium AD. Corroboration of the beginning of this sequence would place Halin as the oldest currently dated Neolithic site in Mainland Southeast Asia and would provide support for the two-layer model of Neolithic migration.

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New evidence of metal exchange in Southeast Asia during the Iron Age: scientific analysis of excavated bronze in Vilabouly, Laos

Yang,

Jiang,

Thonglith

et al. 2024

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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A late 2nd/early 1st millennium BC interaction arc between Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China: Archaeometallurgical data from Hebosuo and Shangxihe, Yunnan

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age

Understanding the transport networks complex between South Asia, Southeast Asia and China during the late Neolithic and Bronze Age

Late prehistoric and early historic chronology of Myanmar: a four-millennia sequence from Halin

New evidence of metal exchange in Southeast Asia during the Iron Age: scientific analysis of excavated bronze in Vilabouly, Laos

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