 | As archaeologists in the last half century have set about reconstructing the prehistory of Southeast Asia, data from one country-centrally located Laos-was conspicuously missing. Little archaeology has occurred in Laos since before World War II, and beginning in the mid-1970s, Laos shut its doors completely to outside researchers. International scholars had to content themselves with information from excavation and survey work mostly from neighboring Thailand. ...> Full Article |