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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology Année : 2015

Dating the Myanmar Bronze Age: Preliminary 14C Dates from the Oakaie 1 Cemetery near Nyaung'gan

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Since 2014 the Mission Archéologique Française au Myanmar has been excavating a prehistoric cemetery, Oakaie 1, adjacent to the famous Nyaung’gan Bronze Age cemetery in Sagaing Division. Oakaie 1 (OAI1) was selected as a Nyaung’gan proxy in order to better understand the Neolithic-Bronze Age-Iron Age chronological transitions in upper-central Myanmar, for eventual regional-scale synthesis. An initial attempt to AMS 14C date 13 human femurs failed due to a lack of collagen but a subsequent effort using an apatite dating methodology on 5 femurs was successful. These preliminary data bracket part of the cemetery from the 9th to 6th c. BC with a 4th-3rd c. BC outlier. Typological and technological analogies between OAI1 and Nyaung’gan pottery grave goods likewise suggest an early 1st millennium BC date for the local Bronze Age.

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hal-01529079 , version 1 (30-05-2017)

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Thomas Oliver Pryce, Aung Aung Kyaw, Lucy Andia, Louis Champion, Camille Colonna, et al.. Dating the Myanmar Bronze Age: Preliminary 14C Dates from the Oakaie 1 Cemetery near Nyaung'gan. Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology, 2015, 39 (2015), pp.38-49. ⟨10.7152/jipa.v39i0.14902⟩. ⟨hal-01529079⟩
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