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ID: 7032405
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032405
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ban Chiang (deserted settlement)  Ban Chiang (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 17 32 55 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 17.5480  decimal degrees
Long: 103 21 30 E  degrees minutes   Long: 103.3580  decimal degrees

Note: One of the most important prehistoric settlements discovered in South East Asia, Ban Chiang reveals evidence of farming and the manufacture and use of metals. Remains date 2100 BCE to around 200 CE. It was accidentally discovered in 1966, which prompted further excavations. It is on UNESCO's World Heritage list and the United Nations' List of Protected Areas.

Names:
Ban Chiang (preferred,C,V,S)
แหล่งโบราณคดี บ้านเชียง (C,V,Thai (transliterated),U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Prathet Thai (nation)  ........  Prathet Thai (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Udon Thani (province)  ............  Udon Thani (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Ban Chiang (deserted settlement)  ................  Ban Chiang (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
prehistoric site (C)  ............  dates from Iron Age
World Heritage Site (C)
inhabited place (H)

Sources and Contributors:
แหล่งโบราณคดี บ้านเชียง..........  [VP]
.........................................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Ban Chiang..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.......................  Ban Chiang Project, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology [online] (2007-) accessed 18 February 2009
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 337
.......................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 18 February 2009
.......................  World Database on Protected Areas [online] (2007-) accessed 18 February 2009
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Ban Chiang Project, Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology [online] (2007-) accessed 18 February 2009
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1989) 337
..................  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 18 February 2009
..................  World Database on Protected Areas [online] (2007-) accessed 18 February 2009
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-) accessed 18 February 2009

 

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