The isotopic information provided by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-
MS) is revised from a tutorial point of view covering both the use of enriched stable isotopes …

The long-awaited definitive chronology for the period from the initial use of bronze
metallurgy to the end of the Iron Age on the Khorat Plateau of Northeast Thailand has …

Longbohe is a newly discovered copper mining, smelting and production site located
strategically beside the Red River on the China–Vietnam border in Southeast Yunnan …

Bronze working is a nonnative technical craft which was incorporated relatively late in
southern China and Southeast Asia. Debates about the origins of the Bronze Age in these …

We present the results of metallographic, elemental, and lead isotope analyses of one slag
and 27 copper-base artefacts from northern Vietnam. These artefacts come from four sites …

In this paper we use archaeometallurgical data from the Yunnanese Bronze Age sites of
Hebosuo and Shangxihi, to examine the nature of early exchange networks within Yunnan …

The Khao Wong Prachan Valley of central Thailand is one of four known prehistoric loci of
copper mining, smelting and casting in Southeast Asia. Many radiocarbon determinations …

After several decades of archaeologists interpreting Thailand's metal age development
using top-down approaches drawn from 1980s archaeological theory, it has become evident …

This paper integrates the later prehistory of mainland Southeast Asia with that of the
extensive and varied lands north to the Yangtze River and beyond. Five millennia ago, rice …

Continental rifts are thought to transition from a power-law fault length distribution during the
juvenile stages of extension, to an exponential distribution during break-up and oceanic …