Ban Non Wat - Ancient Village or Settlement in Thailand
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Site Name: Ban Non WatCountry: Thailand
NOTE: This site is 36.605 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Phimai Nearest Village: Ban Non Wat
Latitude: 15.274414N Longitude: 102.268897E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Ancient Settlement in Thailand. Ban Non Wat is a village in central Thailand. It has been the subject of recent (2002-present) excavation of what are thought to be late neolithic and early bronze age burials. The village is thought to have been consistently habitated for at least four thousand years.
The excavations have been run by Charles Higham, now by Dr. Nigel Chang and are partially funded by the Earthwatch institute, and are considered by some to be amongst the richest archaeological digs under current excavation. The discovery of a superburial on the site has yielded a wealth of artifacts, especially grave goods, and is a source of continued interest.
The rice fields surrounding the village, although yet to be exhaustively studied, are thought to have been irrigated thousands of years ago, and preliminary dating has supported this theory.
Many of the artifacts recovered have suggested an ongoing link with the Khmer culture, unsurprising given the site's proximity to one end of the Ancient Khmer Highway, at the Phimai Historical Park. Much of the earlier Bronze Age technology is thought to have come from trade routes from southern China.
Source: Wikipedia
Note: See article from the Smithsonian Magazine in the comment
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