| Ref ID: | 22875 |
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| Ref Type: | Book Section |
| Authors: | Reinecke, Andreas Laychour, Vin Sonetra, Seng |
| Title: | Prohearan iron age burial site in southeastern Cambodia: preliminary report after three excavations |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Source: | Prohearan iron age burial site in southeastern Cambodia: preliminary report after three excavations |
| Place of Publication: | Singapore |
| Publisher: | NUS Press |
| Abstract: | In spring 2007, an Iron Age burial site with many bronze drums and gold or silver offerings was discovered at the village of Prohear in the Prey Veng province of southeastern Cambodia, but was almost completely looted by the villagers before the end of that year. In spring 2008, 2009 and 2011, rescue excavations were conducted under the 4m-wide main road through the village, which had been pared from looting. 168m2 have been uncovered on a length of 58m of the road. In total, 69 inhumations and seven jar burials of the Early Iron Age (500 BC to AD 100) were discovered. The material of these 76 graves is presently undergoing analysis, including about 100 gold and silver objects. This preliminary report presents the latest summary of the excavations from 2008-11 and of the current research in context with other sites of the same period. |
| Date Created: | 9/25/2013 |
| Editors: | Tjoa-Bonatz, Mai Lin Reinecke, Andreas Bonatz, Dominik |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Page Start: | 268 |
| Page End: | 284 |