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Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: Higham, Charles
Title: The opposed human figure at Khok Phanom Di
Date: 2004
Source: Journal of the Siam Society
Abstract: Several authorities have noted the widespread distribution of incised and impressed pottery vessels associated with the earliest rice-farming communities of Thailand. This paper explores the origins of agriculture in the context of a particular motif in the form of a stylized human figure. This motif, it is argued, links a series of sites in Central and Northeast Thailand, and suggests a shared tradition of symbolic decoration that dates from the late third millennium.
Date Created: 10/15/2013
Volume: 92
Page Start: 15
Page End: 36