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Dating is fundamental to archaeology. It provides a basis for comparing sites, making analogies and developing theories about the past. Yet adequate dating of so-called Dvaravati sites of central Thailand is uncommon. Typical artefacts of the Dvaravati period may be assignable to a period of time - from the last centuries BC to as late as the early centuries of the 2nd millennium AD. This paper highlights some of the difficulties with dating Dvaravati archaeological assemblages. It provides some recent radiocarbon dates for the site of U-thong in central Thailand and considers in brief the implications of these dates for studies of the Dvaravati period.
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