The Origins of Bagan: New Dates and Old Inhabitants

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dc.contributor.authorHudson, Bob
dc.contributor.authorLwin, Nyein
dc.contributor.authorMaung, Win (Tanpawady)
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-04T19:49:27Z
dc.date.available2010-08-04T19:49:27Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractBagan is a major early urban center in Myanmar (Burma). Hundreds of Buddhist monuments were built there between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries A.D. The dating of activities earlier than this has until recently not been supported by scientific evidence. Part of Otein Taung, a "pottery hill" in the middle of the urban complex, has now been radiocarbon dated between A.D. 650 and 830. A new survey of the spread of "Pyu" fingermarked bricks has located these cultural markers, widespread in Myanmar in the first millennium A.D., in more than 50 buildings at Bagan. This spatial and dating evidence suggests that before Bagan became a historically recorded economic and military power, and a key ritual center, it was a substantial settlement contemporaneous with some of Myanmar's distinctive first millennium "Pyu" sites. KEYWORDS: Myanmar, Burma, Bagan, Pagan, archaeology, excavation, earthenware, pottery, Pyu, Tircul, urbanism, radiocarbon, settlement, spatial, GIS.
dc.identifier.citationHudson, B., N. Lwin, and W. Maung. 2001. The Origins of Bagan: New Dates and Old Inhabitants. Asian Perspectives 40 (1): 48-74.
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/17144
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 40
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 1
dc.subjectMyanmar
dc.subjectBurma
dc.subjectBagan
dc.subjectPagan
dc.subjectarchaeology
dc.subjectexcavation
dc.subjectearthenware
dc.subjectpottery
dc.subjectPyu
dc.subjectTircul
dc.subjecturbanism
dc.subjectradiocarbon
dc.subjectsettlement
dc.subjectspatial
dc.subjectGIS
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshAsia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshOceania--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshEast Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.titleThe Origins of Bagan: New Dates and Old Inhabitants
dc.typeArticle
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