Castillo, CC;
Higham, CFW;
Miller, K;
Chang, N;
Douka, K;
Higham, TFG;
Fuller, DQ;
(2018)
Social responses to climate change in Iron Age north-east Thailand: New archaeobotanical evidence.
Antiquity
, 92
(365)
pp. 1274-1291.
10.15184/aqy.2018.198.
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Abstract
New evidence from archaeological investigations in north-east Thailand shows a transition in rice farming towards wetland cultivation that would have facilitated greater yields and surpluses. This evidence, combined with new dates and palaeoclimatic data, suggests that this transition took place in the Iron Age, at a time of increasingly arid climate, and when a number of broader societal changes become apparent in the archaeological record. For the first time, it is possible to relate changes in subsistence economy to shifts in regional climate and water-management strategies, and to the emergence of state societies in Southeast Asia.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social responses to climate change in Iron Age north-east Thailand: New archaeobotanical evidence |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2018.198 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.198 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creative commons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Thailand, Southeast Asia, Iron Age, rice farming, weed flora, agricultural intensification, archaeobotany |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061111 |
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