| Abstract: |
Six tripod pottery sites are now known in Peninsular Malaysia, permitting us to speak of a Tripod Pottery Complex in peninsular Thailand and Malaysia. The sites include an open site at Jenderam Hilir. The paper draws attention to the distribution and general topographic setting of these sites, and to the relationship between the tripod vessels of Malaysia and Thailand. Radiocarbon dates from Jenderam Hilir, and X-ray fluorescence analysis and other laboratory analyses conducted on the Malaysian materials are discussed. The presence of a tripod pottery horizon in the southern periphery of mainland Southeast Asia can thus now be confirmed. These tripods represent a local regional form, and are quite different from the Lungshanoid and Lungshan tripods of China.
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