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Excavations in Mainland Southeast Asia have yet to reveal a single complete house plan, yet the potential of residential archaeology to illuminate social change, particularly when human burials are found in association, is emphasised by recent research in other parts of the world. Non Ban Jak is a late Iron Age town in the Mun Valley of Northeast Thailand. Excavations over the past four years have revealed a sequence of domestic architecture, in which the dead were interred within houses. This paper explores the potential of this site to examine social organisation during a period when an agricultural revolution stimulated the rise of inequality at the threshold of early state formation.
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