A View from the Highlands: Archaeology and Settlement History of West Sumatra, Indonesia
ISBN: 9789814843027
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
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This book analyses the rise of the settlement system in the heartland of the Minangkabau region in the highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. It explores the regional settlement pattern arising from Adityavarman's highland interregnum (c. 1347-75), and provides the first attempt to place the archaeological remains and the landscape of Tanah Datar, a fertile plain in the highlands of West Sumatra, in a cultural historic synthesis.


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