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Article: Tracing Thought through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma.(Book Review)
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- Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
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- September 22, 2005
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Tracing Thought through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma. Janice Stargardt. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000. 60 pp. ISBN 90-6984-304-8.
Tracing Thought through Things is the seventh Gonda lecture, delivered on 12 November 1999 at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The author, Janice Stargardt, is one of the small number of British archaeologists who have given sustained attention to Southeast Asia. She starts with a concise review of the setting: archaeology in Indology; iron tools and food resources; continuity of settlement; and urbanization, trade, and Buddhism. ...