Alison Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6331-2149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Compositional Analysis of Glass Beads from Borneo and Java
In this paper, we present the results from compositional analysis of heirloom glass beads from the island of Borneo and Java, Indonesia. A large portion of the beads in this study are from Borneo and housed in the British Museum’s collections. A smaller subset of beads from Campbell Cole’s collection likely come from Java. Previous studies of heirloom beads from Borneo (e.g., Campbell Cole 2022) have raised questions about where the beads came fr…
Northwest Cambodia and the Mekong Interaction Sphere
This paper reviews stone (agate and carnelian) and glass bead assemblages from three sites in northwest Cambodia: Lovea, Prei Khmeng, and Sophy. Beads from all three sites were largely found in burial contexts dating to the Iron Age or protohistoric period (500 BCE-500 CE). While stone and glass beads are frequently markers of contact with South Asia, they are also informative for understanding intra-regional exchange networks within Southeast As…
The Editor's Page
A note from the editor
Provenance of iron Age glass types present in Southeast Asia
Prehistoric Stone Ornaments from Phromtin Tai, Central Thailand
The multi-component site of Phromtin Tai, Thailand is notable for its long occupation from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 700-500 b.c.e.) through early historic periods (ca. c.e. 500-900). Multiple field seasons of excavation in burial and habitation areas at the site have recovered a large number of glass and stone beads. Here we present the study of 57 stone beads from the site using qualitative and quantitative methods that demonstrate the presence …
Prasat and Pteah
The Angkor empire (9-15th centuries CE) was one of mainland Southeast Asia's major civilizations, with a 3000 km 2 agro-urban capital located in northwest Cambodia. Since 2010, the Greater Angkor Project has been investigating occupation areas within Angkor's urban core. This work has identified temple enclosures as important residential areas that made up part of Angkor's civic-ceremonial center. In this paper, we review excavations from residen…
Building from the Ground Up
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
The evolution of agro-urbanism
The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent studies have suggested that both local autonomy and elite policies facilitated the development of these settlements; however, studies have been limited by a lack of detail in considering how, when, and why these factors contributed to the evolution of these sites. In this…
Stark, Miriam
Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, Archaeology in
Angkor Borei and Protohistoric Trade Networks
Angkor Borei, Cambodia was an important urban center related to the early first millennium C.E. polity known as Funan. Excavations in the protohistoric period Vat Komnou Cemetery site uncovered over 1300 glass and stone beads, which are important material indicators of trade. In this article, we review data from earlier studies and add new previously unpublished data on glass and stone beads from this collection as well as previously unpublished …
The Khmer did not live by rice alone
Miriam Stark
Glass artifacts at Angkor
Tracing the trade of heirloom beads across Zomia
This chapter summaries a recent compositional study of ethnographic heirloom beads from several ethnic groups in upland northeast India and Southeast Asia, a geographic region sometimes known as Zomia. The beads were analysed using X-ray emission (PIXE) and can be classified into three groups: potash-lime (K-Ca), soda-lime (Na-Ca), and a third group that may be a mixture of these two glass types. We find that all three glass types appear to have …
Urbanism and Residential Patterning in Angkor
The Khmer Empire (9th–15th centuries a.d.), centered on the Greater Angkor region, was the most extensive political entity in the history of mainland Southeast Asia. Stone temples constructed by Angkorian kings and elites were widely assumed to have been loci of ritual as well as habitation, though the latter has been poorly documented archaeologically. In this paper, we present the results of two field seasons of excavation at the temple site of…
Geologic provenience analysis of agate and carnelian beads using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
The Production and Exchange of Glass and Stone Beads in Southeast Asia from 500 BCE to the early second millennium CE
Updating Asia's Maritime Bead Trade
Residential patterning at Angkor Wat
Considerable attention has been devoted to the architecture and art history of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple in the last century. There has, however, been little research on the functions and internal organisation of the large rectangular enclosure surrounding the temple. Such enclosures have long been assumed to have been sacred precincts, or perhaps 'temple-cities': work exploring the archaeological patterning for habitation within them has been…
Glass Beads from Jar Burials of the 15th-17th Centuries in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia
A variety of glass beads were encountered in jar burials dating to the 15th-17th centuries found on rock ledges in remote portions of the Cardamom Mountains in southern Cambodia. These burials represent a mortuary ritual in which defleshed bones, often from multiple individuals, were deposited in large ceramic jars predominantly from Thai kilns. Despite the isolated location, the jars and glass beads suggest that the people buried in the jars wer…
The Production and Exchange of Glass and Stone Beads in Southeast Asia from 500 BCE to the early second millennium CE
Residential patterning at Angkor Wat
Considerable attention has been devoted to the architecture and art history of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple in the last century. There has, however, been little research on the functions and internal organisation of the large rectangular enclosure surrounding the temple. Such enclosures have long been assumed to have been sacred precincts, or perhaps 'temple-cities': work exploring the archaeological patterning for habitation within them has been…
Glass artifacts at Angkor
The evolution of agro-urbanism
The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent studies have suggested that both local autonomy and elite policies facilitated the development of these settlements; however, studies have been limited by a lack of detail in considering how, when, and why these factors contributed to the evolution of these sites. In this…
Urbanism and Residential Patterning in Angkor
The Khmer Empire (9th–15th centuries a.d.), centered on the Greater Angkor region, was the most extensive political entity in the history of mainland Southeast Asia. Stone temples constructed by Angkorian kings and elites were widely assumed to have been loci of ritual as well as habitation, though the latter has been poorly documented archaeologically. In this paper, we present the results of two field seasons of excavation at the temple site of…
Provenance of iron Age glass types present in Southeast Asia
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Building from the Ground Up
The Khmer did not live by rice alone
Updating Asia's Maritime Bead Trade
Geologic provenience analysis of agate and carnelian beads using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
Prehistoric Stone Ornaments from Phromtin Tai, Central Thailand
The multi-component site of Phromtin Tai, Thailand is notable for its long occupation from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 700-500 b.c.e.) through early historic periods (ca. c.e. 500-900). Multiple field seasons of excavation in burial and habitation areas at the site have recovered a large number of glass and stone beads. Here we present the study of 57 stone beads from the site using qualitative and quantitative methods that demonstrate the presence …
Glass Beads from Jar Burials of the 15th-17th Centuries in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia
A variety of glass beads were encountered in jar burials dating to the 15th-17th centuries found on rock ledges in remote portions of the Cardamom Mountains in southern Cambodia. These burials represent a mortuary ritual in which defleshed bones, often from multiple individuals, were deposited in large ceramic jars predominantly from Thai kilns. Despite the isolated location, the jars and glass beads suggest that the people buried in the jars wer…
Residential patterning at Angkor Wat
Considerable attention has been devoted to the architecture and art history of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple in the last century. There has, however, been little research on the functions and internal organisation of the large rectangular enclosure surrounding the temple. Such enclosures have long been assumed to have been sacred precincts, or perhaps 'temple-cities': work exploring the archaeological patterning for habitation within them has been…
Geologic provenience analysis of agate and carnelian beads using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
The Production and Exchange of Glass and Stone Beads in Southeast Asia from 500 BCE to the early second millennium CE
Updating Asia's Maritime Bead Trade
Tracing the trade of heirloom beads across Zomia
This chapter summaries a recent compositional study of ethnographic heirloom beads from several ethnic groups in upland northeast India and Southeast Asia, a geographic region sometimes known as Zomia. The beads were analysed using X-ray emission (PIXE) and can be classified into three groups: potash-lime (K-Ca), soda-lime (Na-Ca), and a third group that may be a mixture of these two glass types. We find that all three glass types appear to have …
Urbanism and Residential Patterning in Angkor
The Khmer Empire (9th–15th centuries a.d.), centered on the Greater Angkor region, was the most extensive political entity in the history of mainland Southeast Asia. Stone temples constructed by Angkorian kings and elites were widely assumed to have been loci of ritual as well as habitation, though the latter has been poorly documented archaeologically. In this paper, we present the results of two field seasons of excavation at the temple site of…
Miriam Stark
Glass artifacts at Angkor
Stark, Miriam
Post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, Archaeology in
Angkor Borei and Protohistoric Trade Networks
Angkor Borei, Cambodia was an important urban center related to the early first millennium C.E. polity known as Funan. Excavations in the protohistoric period Vat Komnou Cemetery site uncovered over 1300 glass and stone beads, which are important material indicators of trade. In this article, we review data from earlier studies and add new previously unpublished data on glass and stone beads from this collection as well as previously unpublished …
The Khmer did not live by rice alone
The evolution of agro-urbanism
The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent studies have suggested that both local autonomy and elite policies facilitated the development of these settlements; however, studies have been limited by a lack of detail in considering how, when, and why these factors contributed to the evolution of these sites. In this…
Prasat and Pteah
The Angkor empire (9-15th centuries CE) was one of mainland Southeast Asia's major civilizations, with a 3000 km 2 agro-urban capital located in northwest Cambodia. Since 2010, the Greater Angkor Project has been investigating occupation areas within Angkor's urban core. This work has identified temple enclosures as important residential areas that made up part of Angkor's civic-ceremonial center. In this paper, we review excavations from residen…
Building from the Ground Up
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
The Editor's Page
A note from the editor
Provenance of iron Age glass types present in Southeast Asia
Prehistoric Stone Ornaments from Phromtin Tai, Central Thailand
The multi-component site of Phromtin Tai, Thailand is notable for its long occupation from the Late Bronze Age (ca. 700-500 b.c.e.) through early historic periods (ca. c.e. 500-900). Multiple field seasons of excavation in burial and habitation areas at the site have recovered a large number of glass and stone beads. Here we present the study of 57 stone beads from the site using qualitative and quantitative methods that demonstrate the presence …
Compositional Analysis of Glass Beads from Borneo and Java
In this paper, we present the results from compositional analysis of heirloom glass beads from the island of Borneo and Java, Indonesia. A large portion of the beads in this study are from Borneo and housed in the British Museum’s collections. A smaller subset of beads from Campbell Cole’s collection likely come from Java. Previous studies of heirloom beads from Borneo (e.g., Campbell Cole 2022) have raised questions about where the beads came fr…
Northwest Cambodia and the Mekong Interaction Sphere
This paper reviews stone (agate and carnelian) and glass bead assemblages from three sites in northwest Cambodia: Lovea, Prei Khmeng, and Sophy. Beads from all three sites were largely found in burial contexts dating to the Iron Age or protohistoric period (500 BCE-500 CE). While stone and glass beads are frequently markers of contact with South Asia, they are also informative for understanding intra-regional exchange networks within Southeast As…
Archaeology (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (12 works) · Ancient history (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (8 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (8 works) · Bead (7 works) · History (7 works) · Southeast asia (6 works)