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