Archaeological culture · c. 2000 or 1500 BCE – c. 200 CE (start disputed)
Ban Chiang culture
The Ban Chiang tradition of the Khorat Plateau in northeast Thailand is known from village cemeteries with red-painted pottery, bronze and later iron. Its people grew rice and kept domestic animals.
Its dating is a famous debate: early claims of bronze before 3000 BCE were rejected, but scholars still disagree whether settlement began around 2000 or 1500 BCE and bronze around 2000 or 1000 BCE.
See Ban Chiang culture on the map in 2000 BCE
- On the map
- 2000 BCE – 200 CE
How we know
No writing existed, and archaeologists disagree by up to 1,000 years about when farming villages and bronze began here.
Sites
- Ban Chiang c. 2000 or 1500 BCE – c. 200 CE (start date disputed)