Ban Non Wat, Thailand: A Photo Essay
Wednesday September 5, 2007
This week's photo essay is of excavations by Charles Higham (University of Otago, New Zealand) at the Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age cemetery of Ban Non Wat in Thailand.
The shell beads on one of the crouched burials from Ban Non Wat are unique in Thailand.
Photo Credit: Charles Higham (c) 2006
The cemetery site of Ban Non Wat has been the focus of over five years of research into the multiple components. The site includes burials dated to the Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron ages, and they exhibit clear evidence of the growing power of an elite class. Professor Higham believes this site represents the earliest foundations of what was to become the Angkor Civilization.
The shell beads on one of the crouched burials from Ban Non Wat are unique in Thailand.
Photo Credit: Charles Higham (c) 2006
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