Angkor Borei and Protohistoric Trade Networks: A View from the Glass and Stone Bead Assemblage
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, Alison Kyra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dussubieux, Laure | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stark, Miriam T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gilg, H. Albert | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T00:12:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T00:12:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | 40 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Angkor Borei, Cambodia was an important urban center related to the early first millennium C.E. polity known as Funan. Excavations in the protohistoric period Vat Komnou Cemetery site uncovered over 1300 glass and stone beads, which are important material indicators of trade. In this article, we review data from earlier studies and add new previously unpublished data on glass and stone beads from this collection as well as previously unpublished glass compositional analyses from the nearby site of Oc Eo, Vietnam. Examinations of the glass beads highlight the presence of large quantities of high alumina mineral soda glass associated with Sri Lankan or South Indian bead production as well as smaller quantities of other glass types in circulation throughout Southeast Asia. Compositional and morphological studies of agate/carnelian beads show strong affinities with the Indian bead industry, while the garnet beads came from raw material sources in southern India. Overall, Angkor Borei's bead collection shows strong contacts with different regions of South Asia. Comparison with the bead assemblages of other contemporaneous sites demonstrate strong affinities with sites farther inland, such as Phum Snay and Prei Khmeng, Cambodia and Ban Non Wat, Thailand rather than other maritime coastal sites in Southeast Asia. We argue that the stone and glass beads at Angkor Borei are related to intensified interaction with South Asia and that elites at Angkor Borei used these exotic prestige goods to build alliances with sites farther inland forming an intraregional exchange network we call the Mekong Interaction Sphere. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors wish to thank the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in Cambodia which facilitated the study of the beads from Angkor Borei. Thanks also to Seth Quintus for discussion of Bayesian modeling of the Vat Komnou cemetery dates and Mike Shand for assistance with Figure 2. Thanks to Pierre-Yves Manguin for providing materials from Oc Eo and information on his work at this site. Carter's research was funded by the Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History Dissertation Fellowship, The Bead Society of Los Angeles, The Portland Bead Society, The Bead Study Trust, Graduate Women in Science–Beta Chapter, and the Geological Society of America. SEM was undertaken at the University of Wisconsin Department of Animal Sciences Microscopy Laboratories and the University of Oregon CAMCOR laboratory. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Carter, A. K., Dussubieux, L., Stark, M. T., & Gilg, H. A. (2021). Angkor Borei and Protohistoric Trade Networks: A View from the Glass and Stone Bead Assemblage. Asian Perspectives 60(1), 32—70. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2020.0036 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2020.0036 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6331-2149 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/793770 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27810 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawai'i Press | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | stone beads | en_US |
| dc.subject | glass beads | en_US |
| dc.subject | Mekong Interaction Sphere | en_US |
| dc.subject | Funan | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cambodia | en_US |
| dc.title | Angkor Borei and Protohistoric Trade Networks: A View from the Glass and Stone Bead Assemblage | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |