Late Neolithic to Early-Mid Bronze Age semi-precious stone bead production and consumption at Oakaie and Nyaung’gan in central-northern Myanmar

Georjon, Cloé; Kyaw, U. Aung Aung; Win, Daw Tin Tin; Win, Daw Thu Thu; Pradier, Baptiste; Willis, Anna; Petchey, Peter; Iizuka, Yoshiyuki; Gonthier, E.; Pélegrin, Jacques; Bellina, Bérénice; Pryce, Thomas Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.ara.2020.100240

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“…A smooth, circular perforation, 3.31mm in diameter, had been drilled through the antler beam close to this groove (Figure 7B). This perfectly round hole, with its even, vertical sides, suggests that the drill used was probably made of metal, as observed on beads perforated by metal bits (Nguyêñ 1996;Georjon et al 2021).…”

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In search of a musical past: evidence for early chordophones from Vietnam

Campos

Hull

Hồng³

2023

Antiquity

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Music likely played an important role within prehistoric societies but can be challenging to study in the absence of evidence for musical instruments. Here, the authors present two deer antlers recovered from the early Metal Age site of Go O Chua in southern Vietnam. A detailed examination of the artefacts, including evidence for use-wear, combined with insights from ethnographic analogies, leads the authors to conclude that the artefacts were single-stringed musical instruments. At least 2000 years old, the Go O Chua artefacts would be the earliest-known examples of chordophones from the region and indicate a long musical tradition. Their identification gives impetus to archaeo-musicological research in Southeast Asia and beyond.

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In search of a musical past: evidence for early chordophones from Vietnam

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Hull

Hồng³

2023

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“…It is certainly conceivable that some of these materials were not available in southern China, despite some overlap in ecological conditions, and that detailed and fortuitous future MSEA sampling programmes could recover evidence for their being supplied north, as per the recent association of sappanwood and lead and copper ingot exchange in a seventeenth-century ad wreck in the Gulf of Siam (Venunan et al 2022). More readily identifiable would be the exchange of semi-precious stones, for which there are precedents in the form of Taiwanese nephrite (Hung et al 2007), agate and carnelian beads produced by highly skilled artisans (Bellina 2003; Bellina et al 2019), as well as recent evidence for lower-skilled production of carnelian beads in Neolithic north-central Myanmar (Georjon et al 2021).…”

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A Partial Prehistory of the Southwest Silk Road: Archaeometallurgical Networks along the Sub-Himalayan Corridor

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Historical phenomena often have prehistoric precedents; with this paper we investigate the potential for archaeometallurgical analyses and networked data processing to elucidate the progenitors of the Southwest Silk Road in Mainland Southeast Asia and southern China. We present original microstructural, elemental and lead isotope data for 40 archaeological copper-base metal samples, mostly from the UNESCO-listed site of Halin, and lead isotope data for 24 geological copper-mineral samples, also from Myanmar. We combined these data with existing datasets (N = 98 total) and compared them to the 1000+ sample late prehistoric archaeometallurgical database available from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan. Lead isotope data, contextualized for alloy, find location and date, were interpreted manually for intra-site, inter-site and inter-regional consistency, which hint at significant multi-scalar connectivity from the late second millennium bc. To test this interpretation statistically, the archaeological lead isotope data were then processed using regionally adapted production-derived consistency parameters. Complex networks analysis using the Leiden community detection algorithm established groups of artefacts sharing lead isotopic consistency. Introducing the geographic component allowed for the identification of communities of sites with consistent assemblages. The four major communities were consistent with the manually interpreted exchange networks and suggest southern sections of the Southwest Silk Road were active in the late second millennium bc.

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