ASIANPERSPECTIVES

VOLUME XVI

NUMBER 2

A JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

ASIAN PERSPECTIVES

EDITOR

WILHELM G. SOLHEIM II

ASSISTANT EDITOR

RICHARD GOULD

EDITORIAL BOARD

WILHELM G. SOLHEIM IIROGER C. GREEN WALTER F. VELLA

REGIONAL EDITORS

KWANG-CHIH CHANG: TaiwanCHESTER CHARD : Northeast Asia

PETER CHAPMAN: MicronesiaCHIN YOU-DI: ThailandA. H. DANI: Pakistan

PAUL DERANIYAGALA: CeylonALFREDO EVANGELISTA: Philippines

BARBARA HARRISSON: East Malaysia and BruneiICHIRO YAWATA: Japan

WON-YONG KIM: KoreaB. B. LAL: India

F. D. MCCARTHY: AustraliaBRIAN A. V. PEACOCK: Malaya

RICHARD PEARSON: RyukyusRICHARD SHUTLER, Jr.: Melanesia

Y OSIHIKO SINOTO: PolynesiaR. P. SOEJONO: Indonesia

MICHAEL M. TROTTER: New ZealandPIERRE VERIN: Madagascar

BOOK REVIEW EDITORS

H. DAVID TUGGLE

RICHARD GOULD

P. BION GRIFFIN

PRODUCTION EDITOR

JOHN HOWE

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TOM HARRISSON 197

CONTENTSThe "Antiquities" Problem. WILHELM G. SOLHEIM II 113

Cultural Sequence in Western Kyushu . ALBERT MOHR AND

MASAKAZU YOSHIZAKI 125

Prehistoric Iron Implements from Thailand . PER S0RENSEN 134

A Preliminary Analysis of Ban Chiang Painted Pottery,Northeast Thailand . PENELOPE VAN ESTERIK 174

Stone Artifacts from Borneo Paralleled in Polynesia(and Elsewhere?) . TOM lIARRissoN 195

Carbon-14 Dates from Kota Batu,Brunei (Borneo)

Rare Ceramic Bangles from Borneo

Reviews

TOM lIARRISSON 200

REvIEW ARTICLE

Gold and Megalithic Activity in Prehiitoric and Recent WestBorneo. Tom Harrissori and Stanley J. O'Connor. RevieWedby INEZ DE BEAUCLAIR 203

TOPICAL AND GENERAL TITLES

Prehistory. Derek Roe. Reviewed by DONALD J. MULVANEY 207

Aspects of Prehistory. Grahame Clark. Reviewed by ROBERTDUNNELL 207

World Prehistory. Grahame Clark. Reviewed by JEROME JACOBSON 209

Introdw:tory Readings in Archaeology. Brian M. Fagan, ed.Reviewed by H. DAVID TUGGLE 210

The Origins of Civilization. Carroll L. Riley. Reviewed by CHESTERS. CHARD 211

The Archaeology of Early Man. J. M. Coles and E. S. Higgs.Reviewed by JAMES R. SACKETT 212

Shipwrecks and Archaeology. Peter Throckmorton. Reviewed byJILL CORDOVER . 213

A History of Dyed Textiles. Stuart Robinson. Reviewed by MARYELIZABETH KING 214

Food in Antiquity. Don and Patricia Brothwell. Reviewed by P.BION GRIFFIN 215

PERIODICALS

World Archaeology. Vol. 1, nos. 1, 2, 3. Roy Hodson and ColinPlatt, executive eds. Reviewed by P. BIONGRIFFIN 216

SERIES: ABORIGINES IN AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY

The Structure and GrcrdJth of Australia's Aboriginal Population.F. Lancaster Jones. Reviewed by RICHARD A. GOULD . 218

Attitudes and Social Conditions. Ronald Taft, John L. M. Dawson,and Pamela Beasley. Reviewed by RICHARD A. GOULD 219

Aboriginal Settlements. J. P. M. Long. Reviewed by RICHARD A.GOULD 219

The Destruction of Aboriginal Society. C. D. Rowley. Reviewedby RICHARD A. GOULD 220

Aboriginal Advancement to Integration. H. P. Schapper. Reviewedby RICHARD A. GOULD 220

Index to Volume XVI 221

ABBREVIATIONS

A Antiquity, Cambridge BSGI Bulletin de la Service

AA American Anthropologist, Geologique Indochine,

Washington, D.C. Hanoi

A]S Australian Journal of BTLV Bijdragen tot de Taal-,

Science, Sydney Land- en Volkenkunde,

AP Asian Perspectives, The Hague

Honolulu CA Current Anthropology,

APAS Asian and Pacific Archaeo- Chicagology Series, Social FM] Federation Museums ]our-Science Research nal, Kuala LumpurInstitute, University of

GR Geographical Review, NewHawaii, Honolulu

YorkAPAO Archaeology and Physical

Anthropology in Oceania, IB Information Bulletin,

Sydney Pacific Science

AR Anthropological Records,Association, Honolulu

University of California, ]AS .] ournal of Asian Studies,

Berkeley formerly Far Eastern

BAE Bureau of American·Ethno- Quarterly, Ann Arbor

logy, Washington, D.C. ]AOS Journal of the American

BDAA Bulletin of the Department Oriental Society, New

of Archaeology and Haven

Anthropology, National ]EAS Journal of East AsiaticTaiwan University, Studies, ManilaTaipei ]MBRAS Journal of the Malayan

BEFEO Bulletin de l'Ecole Franfaise Branch, Royal Asiaticd'Extreme-Orient, Paris Society, Kuala Lumpur

BIEAS Bulletin of the Institute of IPS ] ournal of the PolynesianEthnology, Academia Society, Wellington, N.Z.Sinica, Taipei

]RAI ] ournal of the RoyalBMFEA Bulletin of the Museum of Anthropological Inst£tute

Far Eastern Ant£qu£t£es, of Great Br£ta£n andStockholm Ireland, London

BSEI Bulletin de la Societe desISO ] ournal de la Socreti des

Etudes Indoch£noises,Saigon

Oceanistes, Paris

BSEO Bulletin de la Societe ISS Journal of the S£am Society,

d'Etudes Oceaniennes, Bangkok

Papeete KK K'ao-ku (Kaogu), Peking

KKHP K t ao-ku-hsueh-pao, Peking PEFEO Publications de ['Ecole

KKTH K(ao-ku-tung-hsUn, Peking Franfaise d'Extreme- }

Orient, ParisKZ Kokogaku Zasshi, Tokyo

PjS Philippine journal ofM Man, London Science, Manila ,

MH Malaya in History, Kuala PM Pacific Islands Monthly,j]

Lumpur Sydney '.'fl

MjTG The Malayan journal of S Science, Washington, D.C. -",."~'

Tropical Geography, SA Scientific American, NewSingapore York ,i

MNMV Memoirs of the National SMj Sarawak Museum journal,Museum of Victoria, KuchingVictoria VTLV Verhandelingen tot de Tool-,

MS Monumenta Serica, Tokyo Land- en Volkenkunde,

MSGI Memoirs de la ServiceS-Gravenhage

Geologique d'Indochine, W Walkabout, Melbourne,

Hanoi Australia

NAM North Australian Monthly, WW Wen-wu, Peking

Townsville, Queensland ZFE Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie,Berlin ·fNGS Nieuw Guinea Studien,

ZMRNH Zoologische MededelingenThe Hague::,

Rijksmuseum van Natuur-:1

NZA.AN New ZealandArchaeological lijke Historie, Leyden ",'.Association Newsletter, ZVRNH Zoologische Verhandelingen .1

Wellington, N.Z. Rijksmuseum van N atuur-0 Oceania, Sydney lijke Historie, Leyden

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