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Multivallate sites and socio-economic change: Thailand and Britain in their Iron Ages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dougald J .W. O'Reilly
Dougald J .W. O'Reilly*
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*Department of Archaeology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (Email: [email protected])
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The Iron Age in north-eastern Thailand is marked by the appearance of multivallate ‘moated sites’ some of them up to 50ha in extent. Current evidence for their date and function shows them to be contemporary with other developments – expansion into new agricultural land, increases of ranking in burial and the arrival of regional pottery industries. In interpreting the reasons for these changes, the author draws on analogies from the Bronze/Iron transition in Britain, where forts are also seen as instruments of socio-economic change.

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ThailandIron Agemoated sitesmultivallatehierarchy
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Antiquity , Volume 82 , Issue 316 , June 2008 , pp. 377 - 389
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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