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Southeast Asia: From Prehistory to History

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This is simply a book that anyone with a serious interest in Southeast Asian archaeology must have. It provides an overview of fieldwork findings to date, and presents the most recent interpretations of what has been found, by the foremost scholars working in the area. The book is also unusually well edited, and the binding for the paperback appears to be durable, so one could take it to the sites described there.

This book is basically a text book on South East Asia that is used in advanced college classes. It is an edited collection of articles on South East Asia. The writing is clear but it is written at a college level. It contains good maps, drawings, and pictures linked to the text.
As a series of edited articles, you will find depth on many particular topics but not a fully comprehensive coverage of the area. I would suggest looking at the table of contents to see if the chapters are of interest. I know of no book which does such a good job of covering this area "from Prehistory to History" (its subtitle).