Nguyễn Thị Thúy , Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung , Nguyễn Thị Mai Hương , Nguyễn Thị Mỹ Linh , Elle Grono , Bianca Grenville , Peter Bellwood , Philip J. Piper
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Abstract
Archaeological excavations at the site of Đền Đồi, Nghệ An Province, Central Vietnam, produced evidence of a well-stratified depositional sequence that provides important insights into a previously unrecorded method of settlement construction in the period c. 2000–1500 cal. BCE. The evidence suggests that foundation platforms for wooden structures were constructed from purposefully deposited layers of windowpane oyster shells (Placuna placenta) alternating with layers of locally obtained natural loam deposits. Intermittently, dwellings were demolished, and new surfaces and structures were rebuilt on top. Extensive chronometric dating indicates that the surviving sequence of foundations built up over a period of less than 400 years, during the first half of the 2nd millennium BCE.
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Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.