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Bronze Age Myanmar (Burma): a report on the people from the cemetery of Nyaunggan, Upper Myanmar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nancy Tayles ,
Kate Domett  and
U Pauk Pauk
Nancy Tayles
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Kate Domett
Affiliation:
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology, Otago School of Medical Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
U Pauk Pauk
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Corner of 70th & 28th Streets, Chan-aye-tha-san Township, Mandalay, Myanmar.
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Extract

Rare information is presented on Bronze Age burials from Burma. Skeletal remains of 43 individuals are placed in a broader southeast Asian context.

Keywords

Burmahuman skeletal remainsBronze Age
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 288 , June 2001 , pp. 273 - 278
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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