Ban Chiang Hian
Ban Chiang Hian ( Thai : บ้าน เชียง เหียน ) is an archaeological site in the province of Maha Sarakham in the northeast region of Thailand , the so-called Isan .
Location and excavation history
Ban Chian Hian is a ditch-encircled settlement in the valley of the Mae Nam Chi River (Chi River). It was the target of an excavation campaign by Charles Higham and A. Kijngam in 1981. Aerial photographs showed that both the trenches , which encompass an area of around 38 hectares, and a water basin connected to them were filled by a diverted watercourse. From the ditches, channels for the irrigation of rice fields were in turn derived.
Finds
In the middle of the area, an archaeologically interesting stratification reaching to a depth of six meters was excavated. In the lowest layers from the late 2nd millennium BC Ceramics with paintings "red-on-buff" were found. Graves with shell and stone decorations were also found in this location. After a break in ceramic processing, around 500 BC Evidence of iron processing and the keeping of water buffalo .
Such sites are found in the valleys of the Mae Nam Mun (Mun River) and, less frequently, the Mae Nam Chi. They are usually viewed as evidence of the development of local principalities.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Payom Chantaratiyakarn: "The middle Chi research program". CFW Higham et al. A. Kijngam (Ed.): Prehistoric Investigations in Northeast Thailand . Oxford 1984, pp. 565-643
literature
- Charles Higham and Rachanie Thosarat: Prehistoric Thailand: from early settlements to Sukhothai . Bangkok: River Books 1998. ISBN 9748225305 .