CURRENT ISSUES ON PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY IN MALAYSIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

CURRENT ISSUES ON PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY IN MALAYSIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

From the 1930s to the 1950s, archaeologists researching in Malaysia adopted the migration theory to explain prehistoric cultural changes. The Indianization or colonist theory was another popular idea. Among the earliest scholars who advanced the colonist theory was H. G. Quaritch-Wales. However, fro...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2007-06, Vol.80 (1 (292)), p.41-57
1. Verfasser: Nik Hassan Shuhaimi Nik Abdul Rahman
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Archaeological excavation
Archaeological paradigms
Archaeological sites
Buddhism
Chinese culture
Excavations
Southeast Asian culture
Temples
Valleys
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Zusammenfassung:From the 1930s to the 1950s, archaeologists researching in Malaysia adopted the migration theory to explain prehistoric cultural changes. The Indianization or colonist theory was another popular idea. Among the earliest scholars who advanced the colonist theory was H. G. Quaritch-Wales. However, from the 1960s, both the migration theory and the colonist theory began to be challenged by archaeologists who studied new data available to them as a result of later research and discoveries.
ISSN:0126-7353
2180-4338