The Excavations of Prehistoric Industrial Sites in the Northeast of Thailand.

本研究的目的是为了验证我的假设，即泰国东北部的繁荣有着炼铁和制盐工业的经济背景。在公元前世纪的地层中发现了四个仓库和大量的稻谷。在公元前世纪的地层中，挖掘出了一个用来保卫村庄的木栅栏和两个用来建造栅栏的沟渠，并在它们附近收集了三把铁斧。在公元后的地层中。1990年在Ban Dong Phlong的炼铁遗址的挖掘暴露了17个炼铁和精炼炉。一个垃圾场和一个工人的小屋。收集了许多风口和铁渣。在炼铁层下面。发现了7具佩戴青铜饰物的人骨，该炼铁厂建于公元前4 - 2世纪，约有10个时期的制盐活动，时间为公元1 - 2世纪。1991年在南东饼畔遗址的发掘工作中发现。挖掘时发现了许多水箱。用于过滤盐水的槽和用于煮沸盐水的炉。收藏了大量的制盐罐、制盐盾等，首次详细地展示了史前炼铁、制盐等工业的砖瓦技术。他们大规模经营，生产的铁和盐出口到东南亚的其他社区。这些商品的出口利润可能是东北地区从史前到历史时期繁荣的一个重要经济背景。这种繁荣伴随着泰国东北部的森林砍伐和环境破坏。

This project was conducted to prove my hypothesis that the prosperity of the northeast of Thailand had the ecoriomic background of the iron-smelting and salt-making industries.Non Yang site was excavated in 1989. Four storehouses and a lot of carbonized rice were found in the layer dated at the second century BC. One wooden fence to defend the village and two ditches to construct the fence were excavated and three iron axes were collected near them in the layer dated at the first century BC. In the layer dated after the Christian era. one big moat was exposed, which surrounded the village.The excavation of iron-smelting site at Ban Dong Phlong in 1990 exposed seventeen iron-smelting and refining furnaces. a garbage dump pit and a worker's hut. Many tuyers and iron slags were collected. Under the iron-smelting layers. seven human skeletons which wore bronze ornaments were found. Tlie iron-smelting factory belongs to the fourth to the second century BC.About ten phases of salt-making activity from the first to the second century AD. were recognized by the excavation of Non Tung Pie Pone site in 1991. The excavation revealed many water tanks. trough for filteration of saline water and a furnace for boiling the saline water. Many salt-making pots and shields were collected.Tile technology of prehistoric industries, iron-smelting and salt-making, were exposed in detail for the first time. They were run in a large scale, and the produced iron and salt were exported to other communities in Southeast Asia. The profit from the export of these commodities might be a major economic background of the prosperity of the northeast from the prehistoric to the historic times. This prosperity was accompanied by the deforestation and the destruction of environment in the northeast of Thailand.