Slide Images for August 28

 Bronze Bell

Maylaysia

300-200 BC

Funerary Pots

Ban Chiang, Thailand

c. 300 BC-200 BC

 Ochre Paintings on a Rack Face

Pha Thaem, Thailand

Bronze or Iron Age

 Ochre Paintings on a Rack Face

Khao Plara, Thailand

Bronze or Iron Age

 Ochre Paintings on a Rack Face

Tham Pha Daeng, Thailand

Bronze or Iron Age

 Ochre Cave Paintings Depicting Humans in Boats

Niah caves, Sarawak, Maylasia

Bronze or Iron Age

 Painted Piece of Stone from the Wall of a Grave

Pasemah, South Sumatra

c. 100 BC-100 AD

 Stone Sculptures

Pasemah plateau, South Sumatra

Bronze or Iron Age

 Stone Sculptures

Lake Toba, South Sumatra

Bronze or Iron Age

Stone Megalith

Bada valley, Sulawesi

Bronze or Iron Age

Terms of the Day for August 26

• Bronze Age – a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age.
• Iron Age – is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. Other changes in society also occurred, including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs, and artistic styles.

Slide Images for August 24

 Stone Artifacts

Bose Basin, Guangxi, Southeast China

Paleolithic era

 Adzes

Sukabumi, West Java

c. 20,000-10,000 BC

 Vessel with Round Bottom

Khorat province, Northeast Thailand

c. 2000-1600 BC

Earthenware with burnished red pigment

 Vessel on Pedestal Foot

Khorat province, Northeast Thailand

c. 2000-1600 BC

Earthenware with red slip

 Excavated Burials with Rich Grave Goods

Ban Non Wat, Thailand

Neolithic and Bronze Ages

 Shell Bead Necklace

Non Mak La, Thailand

c. 2000 BC

 Ling-Ling-O Earrings

Vietnam (left), Philippines (both right)

c. 2000-900 BC

Taiwan Jade (nephrite)

 Socketed Bronze Axe Heads

Thailand

c. 1000 BC

 Dong Son Drum

Song Da, Thailand

c. 500 BC

Bronze

Detail from a Dong Son Drum

Trong Dong Ngoc Lu, Vietnam

c. 1st Millennium BC

Bronze

Terms of the Day for August 24

• Paleolithic Era – meaning “old stone age”, a prehistoric period of human history distinguished by the development of the most primitive stone tools discovered.  It covers roughly 99% of human technological prehistory, from approximately 2.6 million BC to the final few millennia BC.
• Neolithic Era – meaning “new stone age”, a period in the development of human technology at the end of the Stone Age. It is marked by the rise of farming during the “agricultural revolution” and ended when metal tools became widespread in the Bronze Age.
• Bronze Age – a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age.