The Geoarchaeology of Iron Age "Moated" Sites of the Upper Mae Nam Mun Valley, N.E. Thailand. I: Palaeodrainage, Site-Landscape Relationships and the Origins of the "Moats"

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 675-716

  Boyd, William E ^a   Higham, Charles F W ^b   McGrath, Roger J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ARCHAEOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; IRON AGE; MEANDER; PREHISTORIC; RIVER CHANNEL;

THAILAND;

EID: 0346613536     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6548(199910)14:7<675::aid-gea4>3.0.co;2-g     Document Type: Article

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