TY - JOUR
T1 - Sembiran and Pacung on the North Coast of Bali: a Strategic Crossroads for Early Trans-Asiatic Exchange
AU - Calo, Ambra
AU - Prasetyo, B
AU - Bellwood, Peter
AU - Lankton, James
AU - Gratuze, Bernard
AU - Pryce, Thomas Oliver
AU - Reinecke, Andreas
AU - Leusch, Verena
AU - Schenk , Heidrun
AU - Wood, Rachel
AU - Bawono, Rochtri A.
AU - Gede, Dewa Kompiang
AU - Yuliati, Ni L.K. Citha
AU - Fenner, Jack
AU - Reepmeyer, Christian
AU - Castillo, Cristina
AU - Carter, Alison K
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Studies of trade routes across Southeast Asia in prehistory have hitherto focused largely on archaeological evidence from Mainland Southeast Asia, particularly the Thai Peninsula and Vietnam. The role of Indonesia and Island Southeast Asia in these networks has been poorly understood, owing to the paucity of evidence from this region. Recent research has begun to fill this void. New excavations at Sembiran and Pacung on the northern coast of Bali have produced new, direct AMS dates from burials, and analytical data from cultural materials including pottery, glass, bronze, gold and semi-precious stone, as well as evidence of local bronze-casting. This suggests strong links with the Indian subcontinent and Mainland Southeast Asia from the late first millennium BC, some 200 years earlier than previously thought.
AB - Studies of trade routes across Southeast Asia in prehistory have hitherto focused largely on archaeological evidence from Mainland Southeast Asia, particularly the Thai Peninsula and Vietnam. The role of Indonesia and Island Southeast Asia in these networks has been poorly understood, owing to the paucity of evidence from this region. Recent research has begun to fill this void. New excavations at Sembiran and Pacung on the northern coast of Bali have produced new, direct AMS dates from burials, and analytical data from cultural materials including pottery, glass, bronze, gold and semi-precious stone, as well as evidence of local bronze-casting. This suggests strong links with the Indian subcontinent and Mainland Southeast Asia from the late first millennium BC, some 200 years earlier than previously thought.
U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2014.45
DO - 10.15184/aqy.2014.45
M3 - Article
VL - 89
SP - 378
EP - 396
JO - Antiquity : A review of World Archaeology
JF - Antiquity : A review of World Archaeology
IS - 344
ER -