Ref ID:	22411
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Bennett, Anna
Title:	Manufacture, use and trade of late prehistoric iron billhooks from mainland Southeast Asia
Date:	2015
Source:	Metals and civilizations
Place of Publication:	Bangalore, India
Publisher:	National Institute of Advanced Studies
Notes:	Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys (BUMA VII)
Abstract:	As part of ongoing research, this paper focuses on the billhooks from Ban Don Ta Phet, a protohistoric cemetery in West Central Thailand. The tools are of such a distinctive type, that it was felt that they could provide an opportunity to track their occurrence over a broad area thus helping to place BDTP within a wider context. Their shape suggests a specific function which might help to increase the understanding of the activities practiced by the individuals buried at the cemetery, be they farmers or merchants from a settled community within close proximity or perhaps a travelling community of traders or migrants. Questions were therefore: What were these billhooks used for? Who were they used by? Where were they made?
Date Created:	3/30/2016
Editors:	Rangunathan, S. Srinivasan, S. Giulmia-Mair, A.
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