Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chronological table; 1. Introduction; 2. Hunter-gatherer communities and early domestication; 3. The expansion of domestic communities; 4. The end of autonomy and emergence of chiefdoms; 5. The development of mandalas; 6. The Angkorian Mandala; 7. Concluding remarks; References; Index.

Reviews

'We now, at last, have a balanced and authoritative view of the prehistory of the mainland of Southeast Asia, presented by an author who must be regarded as one of the most experienced archaeologists now working in the region … Higham has done the discipline a great service, and this book deserves a wide readership. It would be very hard, using current knowledge, to improve upon it.' Dr Peter Bellwood, Quarterly Review of Archaeology