Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 109974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thongsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayavongkhamdy |
| SIGNATURE | SAYAVONGKHAMDY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Culture |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9467-0811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Secondary burial practice at megalithic jar site 1, Plain of Jars Laos
In 2020 a Lao/Australian archaeological research team revisited one of the largest megalithic jar sites in Laos, Site 1, and undertook excavations in an effort to more fully understand the ritual practice at the site. This paper reviews previous research undertaken at the site and describes the recent excavation which revealed evidence of secondary burial practice dating to the 8th to thirteenth centuries. The research confirms the use of Site 1 …
Technological reconstruction of the late prehistoric primary copper production of the Vilabouly Complex (central Laos)
Late prehistoric copper smelting in the Lao PDR: Experimental reconstruction based on the Vilabouly Complex evidence
Understanding Late Pleistocene human land preference using ecological niche models in an Australasian test case
Laos' central role in Southeast Asian copper exchange networks: A multi-method study of bronzes from the Vilabouly Complex
The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia
Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…
Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos: Fossil Review and Perspectives
Despite the importance of its geographical position for early modern human migration through Australasia, the Indochinese Peninsula has produced relatively few fossils or well-documented archaeological sites, resulting in a poor chronology for early occupation. Tam Pà Ling (TPL), a cave in northern Laos, is one of the rare sites yielding fossils contemporaneous with the earliest migrants into Australasia within a securely established chronology. …
Evolution of the Hoabinhian Techno-Complex of Tam Hang Rock Shelter in Northeastern Laos
Tam Hang rock shelter was excavated in 1934 by the French geologist Jacques Fromaget who discovered 13 skeletons and a lot of stone tools. But after the second War World, the lithic assemblages were lost. Then the site was forgotten since 2003, when the department of archaeology of the Lao Ministry of Culture relocated it and made with a French team a new prospection. In 2007 and after seven campaigns of excavations, a lot of archaeological mater…
A prehistoric flexed human burial from Pha Phen, Middle Mekong Valley, Laos: Its context in Southeast Asia
This paper describes a human skeleton from a rock-shelter in northeast Laos, dated to ~7000 BP. It was excavated in 2004 and moved en bloc to the Laos National Museum in Vientiane. Here we report observations made from the in situ skeleton. The burial is the largely complete but slightly damaged remains of a tall, middle-aged, probable male buried on his side in a flexed position. His teeth were heavily worn and one was infected but otherwise the…
Ancient Copper Mining in Laos: Heterarchies, Incipient States or Post-State Anarchists
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology
More questions than answers: The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project 2009–2012
Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka
Uncertainties surround the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in East and Southeast Asia. Although genetic and archeological data indicate a rapid migration out of Africa and into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka, mainland Southeast Asia is notable for its absence of fossil evidence for early modern human occupation. Here we report on a modern human cranium from Tam Pa Ling, Laos, which was recovered from a secure stratigraphic conte…
The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesis
Isotopic and technological variation in prehistoric Southeast Asian primary copper production
Tam Hang Rockshelter: Preliminary Study of a Prehistoric Site in Northern Laos
In February 1934, Jacques Fromaget, from the Geological Service of Indochina, discovered the Tam Hang site in northern Laos. The site is a rockshelter, located on the southeastern slope of the Annamitic Chain on the edge of the P'a Hang cliff. The geologist's excavation revealed considerable faunal remains from the middle Pleistocene as well as human biological and cultural remains from the pre-Holocene period. One of the human skeletons discover…
[Later Prehistoric Cultures of Island and Mainland Southeast Asia] Recent Archaeological Research in Laos
More questions than answers: The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project 2009–2012
Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos
Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos: Fossil Review and Perspectives
Despite the importance of its geographical position for early modern human migration through Australasia, the Indochinese Peninsula has produced relatively few fossils or well-documented archaeological sites, resulting in a poor chronology for early occupation. Tam Pà Ling (TPL), a cave in northern Laos, is one of the rare sites yielding fossils contemporaneous with the earliest migrants into Australasia within a securely established chronology. …
Isotopic and technological variation in prehistoric Southeast Asian primary copper production
Laos' central role in Southeast Asian copper exchange networks: A multi-method study of bronzes from the Vilabouly Complex
Evolution of the Hoabinhian Techno-Complex of Tam Hang Rock Shelter in Northeastern Laos
Tam Hang rock shelter was excavated in 1934 by the French geologist Jacques Fromaget who discovered 13 skeletons and a lot of stone tools. But after the second War World, the lithic assemblages were lost. Then the site was forgotten since 2003, when the department of archaeology of the Lao Ministry of Culture relocated it and made with a French team a new prospection. In 2007 and after seven campaigns of excavations, a lot of archaeological mater…
Technological reconstruction of the late prehistoric primary copper production of the Vilabouly Complex (central Laos)
Late prehistoric copper smelting in the Lao PDR: Experimental reconstruction based on the Vilabouly Complex evidence
A prehistoric flexed human burial from Pha Phen, Middle Mekong Valley, Laos: Its context in Southeast Asia
This paper describes a human skeleton from a rock-shelter in northeast Laos, dated to ~7000 BP. It was excavated in 2004 and moved en bloc to the Laos National Museum in Vientiane. Here we report observations made from the in situ skeleton. The burial is the largely complete but slightly damaged remains of a tall, middle-aged, probable male buried on his side in a flexed position. His teeth were heavily worn and one was infected but otherwise the…
Secondary burial practice at megalithic jar site 1, Plain of Jars Laos
In 2020 a Lao/Australian archaeological research team revisited one of the largest megalithic jar sites in Laos, Site 1, and undertook excavations in an effort to more fully understand the ritual practice at the site. This paper reviews previous research undertaken at the site and describes the recent excavation which revealed evidence of secondary burial practice dating to the 8th to thirteenth centuries. The research confirms the use of Site 1 …
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
[Later Prehistoric Cultures of Island and Mainland Southeast Asia] Recent Archaeological Research in Laos
Tam Hang Rockshelter: Preliminary Study of a Prehistoric Site in Northern Laos
In February 1934, Jacques Fromaget, from the Geological Service of Indochina, discovered the Tam Hang site in northern Laos. The site is a rockshelter, located on the southeastern slope of the Annamitic Chain on the edge of the P'a Hang cliff. The geologist's excavation revealed considerable faunal remains from the middle Pleistocene as well as human biological and cultural remains from the pre-Holocene period. One of the human skeletons discover…
The Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Tam Hang karstic deposit, northern Laos: New data and evolutionary hypothesis
Isotopic and technological variation in prehistoric Southeast Asian primary copper production
Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka
Uncertainties surround the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in East and Southeast Asia. Although genetic and archeological data indicate a rapid migration out of Africa and into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka, mainland Southeast Asia is notable for its absence of fossil evidence for early modern human occupation. Here we report on a modern human cranium from Tam Pa Ling, Laos, which was recovered from a secure stratigraphic conte…
More questions than answers: The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project 2009–2012
Ancient Copper Mining in Laos: Heterarchies, Incipient States or Post-State Anarchists
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology is a peer-reviewed international journal, which publishes original papers promoting theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in the discipline of socio-cultural anthropology
Evolution of the Hoabinhian Techno-Complex of Tam Hang Rock Shelter in Northeastern Laos
Tam Hang rock shelter was excavated in 1934 by the French geologist Jacques Fromaget who discovered 13 skeletons and a lot of stone tools. But after the second War World, the lithic assemblages were lost. Then the site was forgotten since 2003, when the department of archaeology of the Lao Ministry of Culture relocated it and made with a French team a new prospection. In 2007 and after seven campaigns of excavations, a lot of archaeological mater…
A prehistoric flexed human burial from Pha Phen, Middle Mekong Valley, Laos: Its context in Southeast Asia
This paper describes a human skeleton from a rock-shelter in northeast Laos, dated to ~7000 BP. It was excavated in 2004 and moved en bloc to the Laos National Museum in Vientiane. Here we report observations made from the in situ skeleton. The burial is the largely complete but slightly damaged remains of a tall, middle-aged, probable male buried on his side in a flexed position. His teeth were heavily worn and one was infected but otherwise the…
Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos: Fossil Review and Perspectives
Despite the importance of its geographical position for early modern human migration through Australasia, the Indochinese Peninsula has produced relatively few fossils or well-documented archaeological sites, resulting in a poor chronology for early occupation. Tam Pà Ling (TPL), a cave in northern Laos, is one of the rare sites yielding fossils contemporaneous with the earliest migrants into Australasia within a securely established chronology. …
The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia
Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…
Laos' central role in Southeast Asian copper exchange networks: A multi-method study of bronzes from the Vilabouly Complex
Understanding Late Pleistocene human land preference using ecological niche models in an Australasian test case
Late prehistoric copper smelting in the Lao PDR: Experimental reconstruction based on the Vilabouly Complex evidence
Technological reconstruction of the late prehistoric primary copper production of the Vilabouly Complex (central Laos)
Secondary burial practice at megalithic jar site 1, Plain of Jars Laos
In 2020 a Lao/Australian archaeological research team revisited one of the largest megalithic jar sites in Laos, Site 1, and undertook excavations in an effort to more fully understand the ritual practice at the site. This paper reviews previous research undertaken at the site and describes the recent excavation which revealed evidence of secondary burial practice dating to the 8th to thirteenth centuries. The research confirms the use of Site 1 …
Geography (16 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Geology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Prehistory (7 works) · Southeast asia (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works)