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Introduction: Few works in English on archaeological developments in Burma ever reach these, fewer still address the larger issues and problems in Southeast While a summary of the past 20 years of archaeological work in contribution, its relationship to the context of a larger Southeast Asian prove to be even more significant. Not an archaeologist, I am wary of specialty involves epigraphy (one of the more productive branches of Survey), while my interest in the origins of the state in Burma has invariably closer to prehistory and particularly early Southeast Asian history (preclassical/Southeast Asia) in general. I wish therefore to briefly trace the development ology in Burma, summarize its findings, and place it in a larger Southeast My focus is on the so-called "Pyu" culture of Burma, the extensive, urbanized to the Kingdom of Pagan stretching from the dry central plains of Burma of Kra, a culture that seemed to have occupied Burma roughly between ninth century A.D., a period long shrouded in myth and legend.
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