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Chapter 1

Introduction

In the past decade, the importance of Southeast

China i n Par Eastern archaeology has increased markedly.
One of the reasons for this interest is that more and

more archaeological evidence has been discovered thereby
making available more material with which to compare,

analyze, and study the prehistory of the area. After the
pollen analysis at Jih-yueh-Van was done by Tsukada Matsuo

in 1 9 6 4 - 6 5 (Tsukada 1 9 6 6 ) , and the excavation at Spirit
Cave i n Thailand by Chester F. Gorman in 1 9 6 7 - 6 8 (Solheim

1 9 6 9 ) » Carl 0. Sauer^s ( 1 9 5 2 ) theory on a Southeast Asian
Agricultural heartland began to attract renewed attention.

For an illustration of this development we can refer to
Chang's work ( 1 9 7 0 i 175-185)» in which he sets down the

archaeological and botanical evidence for the beginnings
of agriculture in East and Southeast Asia and, on this

basis, argues for agricultural origins there. Thus, the
increased importance initially attributed to the whole of