| Abstract: |
The article reports an investigation of the relationship between the changes of landscape and Dvaravati settlements in Phetchaburi, a province on the northeastern coast of peninsular Thailand, facing the Gulf of Thailand, about 123 km southwest of Bangkok. Archaeological studies in Phetchaburi are still in an initial stage, but evidence shows that there had been a number of human settlements in the area from pre-historic time until the modern (Bangkok) Period, including some Dvaravati sites on its Holocene palaeo-shoreline. The study will focuses on the two ancient Dvaravati settlements: Nong Chik, Khao Yoi District, and Thungsetthi, Cha-Am District. Both sites are situated on the palaeo-shoreline, and, at present, are the only two Dvaravati sites which has been excavated in Phetchaburi Province. It is presumed that changes of landscape might have affected these Dvaravati settlements in some ways.
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