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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1 Last Day -- 2 A Wandering Life -- 3 George and Mary -- 4 A Gay Association -- 5 Death and After -- 6 Mirrors of Deceit -- 7 False Leads and Red Herrings -- 8 What Happened to the Cast -- 9 Last Events -- Acknowledgments -- Source Notes -- Index.

The transition from Late Iron Age to early state societies in the riverine lowlands of the Mun Valley and northern Cambodia took place rapidly in the fifth and sixth centuries CE. Defining the former involves archaeological excavation, whereas the latter is best known from surviving temple structures and inscriptions in addition to the results of archaeological fieldwork. Several common threads link the two phases of cultural development. From the late fifth century BCE, Iron Age communities participated in the growing maritime exchange network linking Southeast Asia with China and India, bringing exotic ideas and goods into the hinterland. Iron itself had a major impact on agriculture and warfare. Salt, a vital commodity that is abundantly available in the Mun Valley, was exploited on an industrial scale. By the fifth century CE, an agricultural revolution involving permanent, probably irrigated, rice fields and ploughing underwrote a rapid rise of social elites. These leaders in society, named in the early historic inscriptions, maintained and elaborated prehistoric innovations.

Introduction.--I. The historical aspect: The distribution of intelligence.--II. The modern aspect: The scientific distribution of commodities. The value of advertisement to the producer and retailer. The value of advertisement to the consumer. The technique of advertising. The nature of advertising genius. Service and the modern advertising agency. The possibility of business literature.--III. The prophetic aspect: The scientific distribution of ideas in general. The scientific distribution of state policy. The scientific distribution of political thought. The scientific distribution of literature. The scientific distribution of social propaganda. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Introduction.--I. The historical aspect: The distribution of intelligence.--II. The modern aspect: The scientific distribution of commodities. The value of advertisement to the producer and retailer. The value of advertisement to the consumer. The technique of advertising. The psychology of advertising genius. Service and the modern advertising agency. The possibilities of business literature.--III. The prophetic aspect: The scientific distribution of ideas in general. The scientific distribution of state policy. The scientific distribution of political thought. The scientific distribution of literature. The scientific distribution of social propaganda. ; Mode of access: Internet.

As in most parts of the world, ancient Southeast Asian metal production and exchange has been accorded great importance as a cultural and technological development with far-reaching economic and political impacts. Here we present the results of the Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project's 2009-2012 research campaign, a systematic effort to empirically reconstruct regional metal exchange networks and their attendant social interactions c. 1000BC-c. 500AD. The study's morpho-stylistic, technological, elemental and isotopic datasets cover early metal production (minerals and slag) and consumption (Cu, Cu-Sn, Cu-Pb, Cu-Sn-Pb alloys) assemblages from thirty sites in eight countries. These data have either identified or substantiated long-range maritime and terrestrial exchange networks connecting Han China and Mauryan India with most of continental Southeast Asia. The variety and intensity of the attested metal exchange behaviours hints at a dynamic and innovative 1st millennium BC regional economy and the vibrant exchange of cultural practices amongst populations separated by thousands of kilometres. Important too is the provision of indirect evidence for intra-regional economic integration between the Southeast Asia's metal-consuming lowland majorities and metal-producing upland minorities. Southeast Asia has a comparable surface area and present day population to Europe, and thus our efforts represent only the beginning for diachronic and multi-scalar metal exchange research. However, archaeometallurgical methodologies have the potential to greatly improve our understanding of Southeast Asia's vast cultural diversity and interconnectedness. With this paper we lay the framework for such an endeavour and, we hope, define the major questions for its next phase.

As in most parts of the world, ancient Southeast Asian metal production and exchange has been accorded great importance as a cultural and technological development with far-reaching economic and political impacts. Here we present the results of the Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project's 2009-2012 research campaign, a systematic effort to empirically reconstruct regional metal exchange networks and their attendant social interactions c. 1000BC-c. 500AD. The study's morpho-stylistic, technological, elemental and isotopic datasets cover early metal production (minerals and slag) and consumption (Cu, Cu-Sn, Cu-Pb, Cu-Sn-Pb alloys) assemblages from thirty sites in eight countries. These data have either identified or substantiated long-range maritime and terrestrial exchange networks connecting Han China and Mauryan India with most of continental Southeast Asia. The variety and intensity of the attested metal exchange behaviours hints at a dynamic and innovative 1st millennium BC regional economy and the vibrant exchange of cultural practices amongst populations separated by thousands of kilometres. Important too is the provision of indirect evidence for intra-regional economic integration between the Southeast Asia's metal-consuming lowland majorities and metal-producing upland minorities. Southeast Asia has a comparable surface area and present day population to Europe, and thus our efforts represent only the beginning for diachronic and multi-scalar metal exchange research. However, archaeometallurgical methodologies have the potential to greatly improve our understanding of Southeast Asia's vast cultural diversity and interconnectedness. With this paper we lay the framework for such an endeavour and, we hope, define the major questions for its next phase.