2. CHULEEKAMOL ONSUWAN 2001. Excavation of Ban Mai Chaimongkol, Nakhon Sawan Province, Central Thailand: A Study of Site Stratigraphy, Chronology, and its Implications for the Prehistory of Central Thailand. MA. Theses, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
Ban Mai Chaimongkol is a low mound in Nakhon Sawan province excavated by Silpakorn University field school in 1994-1995 under the direction of Surapol Natapintu. This thesis is a chronological analysis of two out of six excavated squares, including the square for which the author was a supervisor in the 1994 field season. The deposit included stratified mortuary and habitation remains, as is common at many prehistoric sites in Thailand. Superposition of burials and ceramic variability formed the basis for defining five mortuary subphases, three in the bronze age and two in the iron age. Ceramic parallels with Ban Kao in Kanchanaburi province helped place the earliest subphase at Ban Mai Chaimongkol in the first half of the second millennium B.C. Ceramic parallels with Chansen suggest that the iron age deposit dates to the mid first millennium B.C. In addition, the presence in the Ban Mai Chaimongkol iron subphases of "high pedestal dishes" similar to those characteristic of Phu Noi mortuary levels 2 and 3 suggests an iron age date for the upper portion of the Phu Noi deposit.
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