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The Development of Metallurgy in Southeast Asia: Another Reply to Loofs-Wissowa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

Wilhelm G. Solheim II
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Considering the importance of the early dates for bronze working technology in Southeast Asia that several of us have been presenting in preliminary reports over the last fifteen years, it is somewhat surprising that there have not been more critical articles published concerning our evidence and interpretation thereof. The primary reason for this is no doubt because final reports of the pertinent sites presenting the relevant data in context have not yet appeared. The great majority of the interested archaeologists are simply awaiting the final site reports before they decide whether our interpretation is reasonable. We are sorry for the great delay in completing the final reports. Speaking of Non Nok Tha, the first site from which excavated data produced early dates for bronze working, the descriptive portion of the research has been completed, the analysis of the data has almost been completed (primarily by Donn Bayard), and it is hoped that the first volume of a two volume final report can be submitted to the press by the end of 1982. The second volume will be totally a data volume, probably published in microfiche.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 18 - 25
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1983

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