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Archaeological Investigations of Pattani History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

David J. Welch  and
Judith R. McNeill
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Abstract

Archaeological research at the Yarang complex of moated sites in Pattani demonstrates that this was an early historic Buddhist ceremonial centre and a later Islamic fortification, but probably not the early trade centre called Langkasuka. At Kerisik archaeological evidence supports the identification of this complex as the location of the fifteenth-eighteenth century trading port city of Patani.

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 27 - 41
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1989

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This paper is a revised version of the paper presented at the Tenth Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia in October 1986. The original conference paper has been amended to incorporate relevant results of fieldwork conducted in 1987. A Fulbright fellowship administered by the Thailand-U.S. Educational Foundation funded the position of archaeological consultant at the Center for Southern Thailand Studies. The second season of fieldwork was supported by a grant from the Esso-Standard (Thailand) Company, Ltd. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Center director Professor Praphon Ruangnarong and the assistance of Center staff archaeologist Mr. Sawang Lertrit, other participating members of the staff, field assistant Ms. Nanthiya Noosorn, and Fine Arts Department archaeologists Mr. Pathom Rasitanond and Mr. Graisin Unjaijinta.

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