Ref ID:	22294
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Junker, Laura Lee Smith, Larissa M.
Title:	Farmer and forager interactions in Southeast Asia
Date:	2017
Source:	Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology
Place of Publication:	New York, USA
Publisher:	Springer
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6521-2_36
Abstract:	Archaeological studies of foragers in Southeast Asia have overwhelmingly focused on technologies and economies in the pre-Neolithic social landscapes of ‘pure’ foragers of the late Pleistocene or early Holocene. However, there is a growing interest in integrating foragers into archaeological research on the complex social and economic mosaics of early agricultural societies during the Neolithic and Early Metal Age periods, raising significant issues about forager/farmer dichotomies and the nature of traditional models of ‘Austronesian’ expansion. With the advantage of historical and ethnographic sources, there is also a recent expansion of archaeological studies focused on specialized forager forest collectors integrated into the political economies of early historic maritime trading polities like Srivijaya, Kedah, Khmer, the Cham states, and Philippine chiefdoms that were dependent on these groups for export products in the lucrative South China Sea/Indian Ocean trade networks of the late first millennium to mid-second millennium. Archaeological investigations of Southeast Asian foragers in these recent complex social landscapes require regional inquiries that include open settlement sites as well as cave excavations, and techniques of archaeological recovery that address the challenging issues of site visibility and preservation.
Date Created:	12/18/2017
Editors:	Habu, Junko Lape, Peter V. Olsen, John W.
Page Start:	619
Page End:	632