Ban Chiang

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Impact 51.2 · Consider · Confidence 75

Add: site was largely peaceful is supported by the lack of metal weapons Ninety percent of the metal finds from the site were not grave goods and probable casting spillage was a common find More children than adults are found with bronze bangles Measurements of the Ban Chiang crania published from that analysis were later Add: in flux as data accumulate across the steppe China and Southeast Asia A 2021 review of the region's bronze metallurgy adopts the short chronology on the ground that every available set of radiocarbon determinations supports it except the seven from this site Those seven were run on crushed potsherds by a technique the review calls unreliable on several grounds Fragments of bronze and iron and a few glass beads worked down into deposits where they do not belong White and Hamilton accept these as in situ which lengthens the Bronze Age by centuries where the review reads them as intrusive At Ban Non Wat undisturbed middens of the Neolithic held no bronze and no crucibles White's 2019 account substitutes bronze period for Bronze Age and iron period for Iron Age On the short chronology the init Add: or urbanized state unlike many other ancient societies that had mastered metallurgy Bronze has been read as appearing at the site already fully developed with no experimental stage It is absent from the very lowest cultural contexts and no worked native copper is known from prehistoric contexts anywhere in Thailand Elemental analysis of three lower Early Period grave artifacts found all three to be 10 percent tin bronze with no other major elements or impurities Metallography of seven lower Early Period artifacts found all but one left as cast the bent tip spear point having been annealed after casting Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton co authored a four volume Ban Chiang

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