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Khao Sam Kaeo's local and regional potteries were made without the use of rotative kinetic energy. They were roughed out with joint elements and shaped with discontinuous pressure, made using mixed techniques -- as the moulding in a convex form for the base and the joining of elements for the body -- or shaped with the paddle and anvil technique. Their paste is tempered with mineral or organic (rice chaff) material and some variants, corresponding to distinguishing surface treatments are noticed. They were fired in an oxidising or reducing atmosphere. The distinctive combinations of those technological features led us to constitute four technological groups: <i> KSK-T.I, KSK-T.II, KSK-T.III, </i> and <i> KSK-T.IV. </i> Their specific distribution at the site implies chronological distinctions and probably limited zone of use. Several brief hypotheses for the non-local origin of certain of those traditions are discussed on this chapter: it is now possible to establish some techno-morpho-stylistic comparisons with pottery coming from other sites in the from other Peninsula sites and in Southeast Asia. (sic) Besides providing an inventory of pottery usage from the 4th to 2nd century BC at Khao Sam Kaeo, this chapter poses questions of scale, regional or inter-regional/transasiatic, and the nature of exchanges that some vessels appear to evidence.
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