John Miksic
Biographic Data
| ID | 540240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Miksic |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Miksic |
| SIGNATURE | MIKSIC J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1National University of Singapore Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Archaeology of Early Chinese Settlement in Southeast Asia
Little historical information is available about early Chinese settlement in Southeast Asia. By the 15th century several Chinese settlements of significant size had formed, but they vanished by the time the Portuguese reached the region. This article surveys the historical literature on these early overseas Chinese settlements, and summarizes the contributions which archaeology can make to clarifying the timing and nature of the process
An Introduction to Seshat
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
Khao Sam Kaeo
Reviewed by: Khao Sam Kaeo: An Early Port-City between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea ed. by Berenice Bellina John Miksic Khao Sam Kaeo: An Early Port-City between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea Berenice Bellina (ed.) Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient. Memoires archéologiques 28, 2017. 675 pages. ISBN 978-2-8553-9427-5 This is the most comprehensive report on an early Southeast Asian site connected to the maritime trade …
Ships, Sailors and Kingdoms of Ancient Southeast Asia
This contribution explores the maritime history of Southeast Asian seafaring populations from 500 BC to AD 1500. The initial focus is on seafaring technology and trade, followed by social and political aspects, discussing how these maritime cultures became wealthy through their control of the sea lanes between China and the Indian Ocean, and how they successfully resisted attempts by agrarian empires to tame them, until the arrival of the Dutch a…
Chinese Ceramic Production and Trade
Ceramics are the most abundant types of artifacts made by human beings in the last 12,000 years. Chinese potters discern two types of products: earthenware ( tao ), which is porous and does not resonate when struck, and wares with vitreous bodies ( ci ), which ring like a bell. Western potters and scholars differentiate stoneware, which is semi-porous, from porcelain, which is completely vitrified. The earliest ceramics in the world are thought t…
Archaeological Evidence for Esoteric Buddhism in Sumatra, 7th to 13th Century
Radiocarbon Dates from Jar and Coffin Burials of the Cardamom Mountains Reveal a Unique Mortuary Ritual in Cambodia's Late- to Post-Angkor Period (15th–17th Centuries AD)
We present the first radiocarbon dates from previously unrecorded, secondary burials in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. The mortuary ritual incorporates nautical tradeware ceramic jars and log coffins fashioned from locally harvested trees as burial containers, which were set out on exposed rock ledges at 10 sites in the eastern Cardamom Massif. The suite of 28 14 C ages from 4 of these sites (Khnorng Sroal, Phnom Pel, Damnak Samdech, and Khnan…
From megaliths to tombstones
The highland–lowland nexus has been one of the staples of historical and anthropological analysis of mainland Southeast Asian studies. At the risk of greatly oversimplifying the situation, it is po
Archaeology Ceramics, and Coins
Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage d'A. REID, intitule Southeast Asia in the age of commerce. Volume two. Expansion and crisis (New Haven Yale, 1993), proposant une synthese sur l'evolution du systeme economique, l'organisation commerciale, l'urbanisme, la religion et les structures des etats de l'Asie du sud-est du XVe au XVIIe siecle
Abstracts of Articles
This paper examines the development of centralized craft production systems in early second millennium A.D. Philippine chiefdoms. Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidences document the emergence of two distinct forms of specialist production: "attached specialization" in prestige goods and "independent specialization" in mass-produced domestic goods. Both production systems are analyzed in the context of foreign trade interactions with China
Classical Archaeology in Sumatra
Radiocarbon Dates from Jar and Coffin Burials of the Cardamom Mountains Reveal a Unique Mortuary Ritual in Cambodia's Late- to Post-Angkor Period (15th–17th Centuries AD)
We present the first radiocarbon dates from previously unrecorded, secondary burials in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. The mortuary ritual incorporates nautical tradeware ceramic jars and log coffins fashioned from locally harvested trees as burial containers, which were set out on exposed rock ledges at 10 sites in the eastern Cardamom Massif. The suite of 28 14 C ages from 4 of these sites (Khnorng Sroal, Phnom Pel, Damnak Samdech, and Khnan…
Classical Archaeology in Sumatra
Chinese Ceramic Production and Trade
Ceramics are the most abundant types of artifacts made by human beings in the last 12,000 years. Chinese potters discern two types of products: earthenware ( tao ), which is porous and does not resonate when struck, and wares with vitreous bodies ( ci ), which ring like a bell. Western potters and scholars differentiate stoneware, which is semi-porous, from porcelain, which is completely vitrified. The earliest ceramics in the world are thought t…
Classical Archaeology in Sumatra
Abstracts of Articles
This paper examines the development of centralized craft production systems in early second millennium A.D. Philippine chiefdoms. Archaeological and ethnohistoric evidences document the emergence of two distinct forms of specialist production: "attached specialization" in prestige goods and "independent specialization" in mass-produced domestic goods. Both production systems are analyzed in the context of foreign trade interactions with China
Archaeology Ceramics, and Coins
Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage d'A. REID, intitule Southeast Asia in the age of commerce. Volume two. Expansion and crisis (New Haven Yale, 1993), proposant une synthese sur l'evolution du systeme economique, l'organisation commerciale, l'urbanisme, la religion et les structures des etats de l'Asie du sud-est du XVe au XVIIe siecle
From megaliths to tombstones
The highland–lowland nexus has been one of the staples of historical and anthropological analysis of mainland Southeast Asian studies. At the risk of greatly oversimplifying the situation, it is po
Radiocarbon Dates from Jar and Coffin Burials of the Cardamom Mountains Reveal a Unique Mortuary Ritual in Cambodia's Late- to Post-Angkor Period (15th–17th Centuries AD)
We present the first radiocarbon dates from previously unrecorded, secondary burials in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. The mortuary ritual incorporates nautical tradeware ceramic jars and log coffins fashioned from locally harvested trees as burial containers, which were set out on exposed rock ledges at 10 sites in the eastern Cardamom Massif. The suite of 28 14 C ages from 4 of these sites (Khnorng Sroal, Phnom Pel, Damnak Samdech, and Khnan…
Archaeological Evidence for Esoteric Buddhism in Sumatra, 7th to 13th Century
Chinese Ceramic Production and Trade
Ceramics are the most abundant types of artifacts made by human beings in the last 12,000 years. Chinese potters discern two types of products: earthenware ( tao ), which is porous and does not resonate when struck, and wares with vitreous bodies ( ci ), which ring like a bell. Western potters and scholars differentiate stoneware, which is semi-porous, from porcelain, which is completely vitrified. The earliest ceramics in the world are thought t…
Khao Sam Kaeo
Reviewed by: Khao Sam Kaeo: An Early Port-City between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea ed. by Berenice Bellina John Miksic Khao Sam Kaeo: An Early Port-City between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea Berenice Bellina (ed.) Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient. Memoires archéologiques 28, 2017. 675 pages. ISBN 978-2-8553-9427-5 This is the most comprehensive report on an early Southeast Asian site connected to the maritime trade …
Ships, Sailors and Kingdoms of Ancient Southeast Asia
This contribution explores the maritime history of Southeast Asian seafaring populations from 500 BC to AD 1500. The initial focus is on seafaring technology and trade, followed by social and political aspects, discussing how these maritime cultures became wealthy through their control of the sea lanes between China and the Indian Ocean, and how they successfully resisted attempts by agrarian empires to tame them, until the arrival of the Dutch a…
An Introduction to Seshat
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
Archaeology of Early Chinese Settlement in Southeast Asia
Little historical information is available about early Chinese settlement in Southeast Asia. By the 15th century several Chinese settlements of significant size had formed, but they vanished by the time the Portuguese reached the region. This article surveys the historical literature on these early overseas Chinese settlements, and summarizes the contributions which archaeology can make to clarifying the timing and nature of the process
History (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · History (3 works)