Non Nok Tha

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Non Nok Tha ( Thai : โนน นก ทา ) is an archaeological find place in the upper area of influence of the Chi River (chi flow) in the highlands of the Phu Wiang (an offshoot of the Phetchabun Mountains ), District Phu Wiang , Khon Kaen province in the Northeast region of Thailand , called Isan .

Excavation history

The first excavations began from 1966 to 1968 under Wilhelm G. Solheim , Donn Bayard and Hamilton Parker and represented a milestone in the archaeological exploration of Thailand, when a larger Bronze Age site could be examined for the first time .

Results

The prehistorically usable stratification extends to a depth of about one meter and contains a number of graves that merge into one another and lie over earlier burials. Bayard was able to divide the sequence into an early (FP) and middle period (MP), whereby the early falls into three phases, of which the two oldest (FP1-2) have no bronze and probably from the period between 2000 and 1500 BC. Come from BC.

There is no doubt that the early settlers of Non Nok Tha consumed rice and that its waste was used to harden clay pots. They also kept herds of domesticated cattle and pigs and had dogs as pets. This is particularly interesting because dogs are descended from wolves that are not native to Southeast Asia but are found in China .

The MP layers have Bronze Age artefacts dating from between 1500 and 1000 BC. Come from BC.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Higham and Thossarat (1998), pp 83f.

literature

Coordinates: 16 ° 44 '  N , 102 ° 15'  E