Across the prehistoric period in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), very few architectural
remains and settlements have been identified and there is an absence of evidence for …

In the tropics, outdoor areas are important arenas of social life and the scene of economic
and daily activities. Yet, outdoor areas are not often detected due to destructive post …

Research on prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia is dominated by mortuary contexts,
leaving processes such as the transition to sedentism relatively understudied. Recent …

This paper presents the results of geoarchaeological and geochronological investigations at
Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam. Beneath the published, terminal Pleistocene sequence …

Northern Vietnam is situated on a major route of Pleistocene hominin dispersal in East Asia,
and the area's karstic caves preserve many prehistoric shell middens. Fossil and genomic …

Low-density, agrarian-urban settlements have become a significant topic in the global
archaeology of urbanism. The urban tradition of the Vietnamese can now be added to the …

Archaeological research on monumentality, early urbanism, and emergent statehood in
Southeast Asia and Vietnam has grown dramatically in recent years, and our understanding …

Over the course of the past two decades there has been growing research interest in the site
formation processes of shell middens. This stands along-side and is being used to inform …

Loc Giang is an early Neolithic settlement located on the east bank of the Vam Co Dong
River in Long An Province, southern Vietnam. Archaeological excavations at the site have …

The Tràng An Archaeological Project (TAAP) has focused on the excavation of three caves
in the tower karstic landscape of the isolated Tràng An limestone massif–located on the …