The gold coast: Suvannabhumi? Lower Myanmar walled sites of the first millennium A.D.

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 202-232

  Moore, Elizabeth ^a   Win, San ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Ministry of Education   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Buddhism; Ecology; Hydrology; Iron age; Laterite; Myanmar (Burma); Water control

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ARTIFACT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; IRON AGE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33947216766     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2007.0007     Document Type: Article

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