Khao Wong Prachan Valley
| Khao Wong Prachan | ||
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| location | Lop Buri ( Thailand ) | |
| Geographical location | 14 ° 55 '3 " N , 100 ° 43' 28" E | |
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The Khao Wong Prachan valley is located in central Thailand in the Lop Buri province . It formed during the 2nd and 1st millennium BC A center for processing copper in Southeast Asia .
Numerous plants testify to the mining, smelting and pouring of copper ore with a high proportion of arsenic . The ore was extracted in the nearby mines, then crushed and sorted. The ores were shaped into bars in crucibles , which were intended for the manufacture of projectile points and socket axes . No evidence of the alloy with tin was found . Since around 600 BC Apparently iron was forged as well.
literature
- Thomas Oliver Pryce: Prehistoric Copper Production and Technological Reproduction in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley of central Thailand . Ed .: UCL Institute of Archeology. London 2008, p. 394 . ( Full text; PDF file; 13.27 MB as digital copy)
- Thomas Oliver Pryce, Vincent C. Pigott, Marcos Martinón-Torres, Thilo Rehren: Prehistoric copper production and technological reproduction in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley of Central Thailand . In: Archaeol Anthropol Sci . 2010, p. 237-264 . ( Full text as digital copy; PDF file; 13.27 MB)
- A. Benner: "The contribution of metallurgical studies to Southeast Asian archeology". World Archeology , 20, 3, 329-351 (1989).