Globalization is one of the most potent theoretical frameworks of the moment, for it provides
a means by which we can make sense of our socio-cultural connectivities, and the networks …

Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of
Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the …

The mid-first millennium CE represents a crucial period in the emergence of early polities in
Southeast Asia. However, disagreement remains between archaeologists and art historians …

Tai-Kadai (TK) is one of the major language families in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA),
with a concentration in the area of Thailand and Laos. Our previous study of 1234 mtDNA …

This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the
perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal …

The Mekong River and its tributaries have nurtured the Khmer civilisation from its
protohistoric foundations in the Funan Period through the lifespans of its Pre-Angkorian …

Archaeological research across mainland Southeast Asia on the transition to history has
fundamentally altered scholarly reconstructions of the region's first millennium AD states …

The paradigm that the early Southeast Asian polities known as Dvāravatī and Zhenla were
respectively, indeed almost exclusively, Buddhist and Hindu/Brahmanical during the second …

The peopling of Madagascar by Austronesian-speaking communities is one foremost—and
indisputable—witness to their long-distance ventures across the Indian Ocean. 2 Linguistic …

The Angkorian world included a variety of connectors that linked the capital to its provinces
and more distant regions where Angkorian influence, if not direct control, shaped daily lives …