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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: relevance of contemporary bronze casting in Ubon, Thailand for understanding the archaeological record of the Bronze Age in Peninsular Southeast Asia
  name:
    name part: Everly, Daniel Eugene
    name part: 1951-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Dickson, D. Bruce
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
  abstract: A direct historical approach is used in this thesis to document the lost wax casting technique as currently practiced by indigenous metallurgists in northeastern Thailand. The smiths observed at Ban Pba Ao, Ubon Ratchathani Province are the last practicing members of a bronze working tradition that has been in continuous operation at the village for two centuries. An account of the processes used to create bronze bells is provided. Of particular significance is the fact that the yard in which casting activities are performed did not receive clean up operations following the bells production. As a result, hearths, bowl furnaces, crucibles and fragments of clay moulds are left scattered about the yard. These materials accumulating in one location would eventually create a mound of cultural debris. The discarded materials from the lost wax casting process as practiced at Ban Pba Ao provide considerable insight into what might be found in the stratigraphy of Peninsular Southeast Asian prehistoric sites that were involved in the production of bronze objects. The study concludes that attention needs to be paid to the stratigraphic sequences from which bronze artifacts are extracted, rather than relying on the artifacts to determine the type of process used in their manufacture.
  note: by Daniel Eugene Everly.
  note: "Major Subject: Anthropology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 14, 2006.)
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  note: System requirements: World Wide Web access and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M. A. Texas A&M University 2004.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  subject:
    topic: bronze casting
  subject:
    topic: Thailand
  subject:
    topic: bronze age
  subject:
    topic: archaeological record
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3157
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 061221
    record change date: 20151104114309.0
    record identifier: in00002204373