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An earlier study of how the archaeological data from the Khmer period in northeast Thailand confirm and augment the information from historical texts is expanded into an examination of the early historic pre-Khmer and the post-Khmer periods. For these, both the historical and the archaeological data are more limited and problematic. The archaeological record confirms generally the changes associated with the transition from prehistory to history but raises questions about the sources of external influence and the types of political and economic organization which characterized northeast Thailand societies. More robust archaeological data and more precise chronological control will be necessary to test historical models of pre-Angkorian and post-Angkorian political development.
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Welch, D.J. Archaeology of Northeast Thailand in Relation to the Pre-Khmer and Khmer Historical Records. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 2, 205–233 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1027320309113
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