@article{fdi:010061305,
  title = {{P}rehistoric iron production technologies in the {U}pper {T}hai-{M}alay {P}eninsula : metallography and slag inclusion analyses of iron artefacts from {K}hao {S}am {K}aeo and {P}hu {K}hao {T}hong},
  author = {{B}iggs, {L}. and {B}ellina, {B}. and {M}artinon-{T}orres, {M}. and {P}ryce, {T}homas {O}liver},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his article presents a preliminary attempt to characterise {U}pper {T}hai-{M}alay {P}eninsula prehistoric iron technologies based on assemblages from two recently excavated coastal sites: {K}hao {S}am {K}aeo and {P}hu {K}hao {T}hong. {T}hese are the earliest known sites involved in the early trans-{A}sian exchange that connected the eastern {I}ndian {O}cean to the {S}outh {C}hina {S}ea from the mid-first millennium bc. {I}t is from this period that iron assemblages start appearing at both continental and insular {S}outheast {A}sian sites. {T}hree models have been offered confronting an indigenous vs. {C}hinese or {S}outh {A}sian impetus for the introduction of iron metallurgy in {S}outheast {A}sia. {T}hese models are discussed in the light of the metallographic and compositional analyses of iron and slag assemblages from these two sites using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectrometry, energy dispersive {X}-ray fluorescence and slag inclusion analysis techniques, together with other production materials from these and other contemporaneous {S}outheast {A}sian sites.},
  keywords = {{I}ron ; {M}etallography ; {S}outheast {A}sia ; {S}outh {A}sia ; {C}hina ; {T}echnological ; transmission ; {S}lag inclusions ; {SEM}-{EDS} ; {AISIE} {DU} {SUD} {EST} ; {ASIE} {DU} {SUD} ; {CHINE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{A}rchaeological and {A}nthropological {S}ciences},
  volume = {5},
  numero = {4},
  pages = {311--329},
  ISSN = {1866-9557},
  year = {2013},
  DOI = {10.1007/s12520-012-0115-2},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010061305},
}