2 Introduction 3 The Tircul (Pyu) and Arakan of Myanmar 4 Peninsular Southeast Asia 5 The Mon Protostates: Dvaravati and Myanmar 6 Pre-Angkorian and Angkorian Polities 7 Champa 8 Models of Political Development 9 Socio-Political Change in Early Southeast Asia
Dougald JW O'Reilly is director and founder of HeritageWatch, a non-profit organization dedicated to heritage preservation, and a lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Dougald O'Reilly's synthesis of mainland Southeast Asia in the
first millennium C.E. makes a genuine contribution to research on
ancient complex societies. It should stimulate more archaeological
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*Miriam Stark, University of Hawaii-Mano*
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*CHOICE, January 2008*
Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia highlights research on the
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Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam. The
civilizations of Southeast Asia have a long and storied history,
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