Ban Non Wat

Crucial Research, but Is It Too Soon for Certainty

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ID3284802
AuthorsP Bellwood (0000-0001-6033-9629, Australian National University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume89
Issue347
Pages1224-1226
Publication date2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2015.105
OpenAlexW2281355625
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

As Charles Higham so rightly states, chronology is a major key to unlocking the prehistoric past, perhaps even the master key. Most readers nowadays will agree that the chronologies for the inceptions of farming and bronze working in north-east Thailand, as put forward in the 1970s, were in error, for the simple reason that archaeologists at that time were prone to sending small scattered fragments of charcoal to C14laboratories without really trying to understand exactly how and where the charcoal originated. I am sure I have been guilty of similar lapses, so apportioning blame is not on my mind and would indeed be pointless

Archaeology · Blame · Certainty · Chronology · Computer security · Epistemology · Key (lock) · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Psychology · Social Psychology

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