Southeast Asia's earliest states emerged during the first millennium AD from the Irawaddy
River of Myanmar to the Red River delta of northern Vietnam. Developments during this time
laid the groundwork for the florescence of the region's later and better-known civilizations
such as Angkor and Pagan. Yet disciplinary and language barriers have thus far precluded
an anthropological synthesis of cultural developments during this time. This review uses a
landscape focus to synthesize current knowledge of mainland Southeast Asia's earliest …