Author: The Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedition, 1960-1962 (Sorensen, P. et al., editors)
Title: Archaeological Excavations in Thailand, Volume I to IV (1967-1988), complete (all published)
Description: Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1967-69 + London: Curzon Press, 1988. First edition. Pp. (vol. I): pp. 129, 33 black-and-white photo-plates; (vol. 2): pp. 164, 140 full page plates (black-and-white photos and line-drawings), 2 plates are double foldouts of the excavation in progress, 4 maps or excavation plan views in pocket at rear; (vol. III): pp. 53, 24 black-and-white photo-plates of human skeletal remains; (vol. IV): pp. xii, 150, (6), 38 photo-plates of cave interior and kettle-drums, numerous text-figures. (vols. I-III): one-quarter green cloth lettered in white on the spine, over orange and white pictorial boards, lettered in white and black, (vol. IV): white pictorial boards, lettered in black, 4to (all volume hardback). The contents of each volume are: Volume I: Sai-Yok, Stone-Age Settlements in the Kanchanaburi province; Volume II: Ban-Kao, Neolithic Settlements with Cemeteries in the Kanchanaburi province, Part 1 - Archaeological Materials from the Burials; Volume III: Ban-Kao, Neolithic Settlements with Cemeteries in the Kanchanaburi province, Part 2 - The Prehistoric Thai skeletons and Volume IV: Surface Finds and Minor Excavations. Archaeological Excavations in Thailand is a voluminous record of the finds of the Thai-Danish Prehistoric Expedition, 1960-1962. The first three volumes were published in Copenhagen in 1967-1969. The fourth volume appeared as Occasional Paper no. 1 of the Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies in 1988. No ownership marks and few signs of use. Some light wear to the paper-covered boards of volumes I-III, volume IV as new; a bright and clean set in very good condition..

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