Urban centers have inner and outer landscapes whose physical remains can be read as the
materialization of social, political, economic, and ritual interactions. Inner landscapes are …

Angkor is one of the world's largest premodern settlement complexes (9th to 15th centuries
CE), but to date, no comprehensive demographic study has been completed, and key …

Our recent interdisciplinary investigations have revealed an unexpected prehistorical
complex settlement system developed in the north Loess Plateau, a region previously …

An exciting topic in the prehistory of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) is where, when and
why matriliny/matrilocality existed in certain regions during the rise of complex societies …

Abstract In Southeast Asia, archaeological research has recently shown that the earliest
centralised polities qualifying as incipient States emerged by the late 5th and early 4th c …

The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and
Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent …

The Origins of Ancient Vietnam explores the origins of civilization in the Red River Delta of
Vietnam and how related studies can inform our understanding of ancient societies …

The notion of an integrated Southeast Asian space has long been advocated by Braudel-
inspired historians such as Anthony Reid, who argued that long-established …

From 500 BC to AD 200, cultural exchanges in the South China Sea were emphasized by
the expansion and intensification of long-distance interaction networks. Various …

As with Anomalocaris, urbanism is one label for many phenomena. However, the varied
phenomena of urbanism are defined locally yet talked about universally, while local …