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Submitted by Zersli on Saturday, 24 August 2013  Page Views: 8646

Multi-periodSite Name: Khok Phanom Di Alternative Name: โคกพนมดี
Country: Thailand
NOTE: This site is 29.945 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Phantasie Nikhom  Nearest Village: Barn Khok Phanom Di
Latitude: 13.575600N  Longitude: 101.147730E
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Khok Phanom Di submitted by zersli : Entrance to the Khok Phanom Di temple which nowadays also holds an exhibition room with artefacts of the excavation. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Khok Phanom Di is a small hill of 5 ha that rises 12 meters above the surrounding rice fields. There is a small Buddhist temple on top of it but access is no problem. Because many potsherds of old ceramics were found archaeologists made two test excavations. They were very successful due to rich finds of prehistoric pottery, tools made from stone and bone and even graves.

So they lead an excavation from December 1984 to July 1985. The excavation area had 100 m2 and went more than seven meters below the surface. It was divided into 11 strata with an age of 4000 to 3500 years. From the deepest to the 5th. layer the site was a shell mound, used by hunters and gatherers as a dwelling site and for other purposes as described later. 4000 years ago Khok Phanom Di was a mangrove forest very close to the sea. The characteristic plants relicts, sea shells bones of saltwater fish, fishhooks and net sinkers were found in huge numbers. During the first century's the sea retreated and came back, so that maritime conditions alternated with estuary and inland condition and vice versa . The findings were in accordance with the environmental change. The last layers show an pure inland character. Thoday Khok Phanom Di is 22 km away from the Gulf of Siam.The prehistory of this part of Southeast Asia is until now only poorly understood.

The excavation at Khok Phanom Di helped to make this picture more clear because of two remarkable aspects:

1. The sheer number of graves found, the good condition most skeletons were in and the rich grave goods that were unparalleled for this area. For two strata the archaeologist even tried to set up genealogies. Most people had Anemia and died often in their twenties. There was a trend from high infant to high child mortality.

2.The high number of pottery and potsherds. Analysts divided the pottery into four ceramic periods.

Most ceramics were produced by pressing an anvil against the inside and beating against the outside with a wooden tool. During the last phase around 3500 years before, Khok Phanom Di was used as a workshop for ceramics. Potters were mostly women, as we can see from their grave goods.

Literature:
B.A.Vincent et al. The Excavation of Khok Phnom Di a Prehistoric Site in Central Thailand.
Volume VI The Pottery, other ceramic Materials and their Cultura Role.
London 2004
Charles Higham. Early Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia.
Bangkok 2002
Charles Higham, รัชนี ทศรัตน์. สยามดึกดำบรรพ์ ยุคกอนประวัติศาสตร์ถึงสมัยสุโขทัย (old Siam from prehistoric time to the period of Sukhothai)
กรุงเทพฯ 1998

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Khok Phanom Di submitted by zersli : The forested small hill in the background is the ancient settlement Khok Phanom Di. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Khok Phanom Di by Andy B on Saturday, 24 August 2013
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When anthropologist Charles Higham and colleague Rachanie Thosarat uncovered this prehistoric grave at Khok Phanom Di in central Thailand, they knew little about its occupant. But "the Princess" and others in nearby graves had much to reveal about themselves and their society.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/remains.html

Human mobility and kinship during and after the transition to agriculture in Neolithic Europe and Southeast Asia

http://www.cecd.ucl.ac.uk/projects/?go1=49
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Charles Higham: A prehistoric mystery by Andy B on Thursday, 22 August 2013
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Charles Higham writes: The McDonald Institute at Cambridge University has, for many years, held special symposia on topics that traditionally lie on the ‘edge of knowability’.

These involve about 20 specialists, each of whom delivers a brief summary of a pre-circulated paper, before the floor is opened to discussion. I have been lucky enough to be invited to some of these meetings, the most recent being held in April on the subject Death shall have no dominion: the archaeology of mortality and immortality. Papers ranged from the kurgans of the Urals to the Maya, from Malta to China.

I spoke about South-east Asia, a sequence that began with flexed burials of hunter-gatherers to arguably one of the world’s greatest tombs, Angkor Wat. Assembling my contribution involved looking back over 40 years of fieldwork, and reflecting on some of the individuals whose graves I have been fortunate enough to uncover.

Kent Flannery once stressed how all human societies have their ambitious and energetic members, and what better way to learn more about their lives than through the rituals that accompanied their death and burial. In all those years, I have often thanked my good fortune to have been able to work in Thailand. I doubt if there is any better excavator in the world than your Thai villager, particularly Thai women. In one of our Bronze Age burials, for example, a prehistoric person had worn rows of shell beads round her neck and waist. The beads, 23,000 of them, remained in place but, of course, the strings that held them together had long since gone. One of my top villagers sat patiently for hours, uncovering them all without disturbing one. And, at the site of Nong Nor, another superb excavator tracked two tin bangles that had the consistency and colour of the surrounding soil.

During a lull in the meeting, I put together a league table of the top prehistoric people I have encountered. Would it be Burial 113 from Noen U-Loke, with her gold bead necklace, or Burial 90 from Ban Non Wat with over 80 beautiful Bronze Age pots? No, I concluded, Burial 15 from Khok Phanom Di would take pride of place. It took me back to February 1981…

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http://www.world-archaeology.com/world/asia/thailand/charles-higham-a-prehistoric-mystery/
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