All Outputs (45)

Early Central Borneo Project: Archaeological Investigations In Pa' Lungan, Kelabit Highlands (2013-2015) (2017)
Journal Article
Lloyd-Smith, L., Gani, N., Mohammad, S. S. W., Appleby, J., Litah, S., Murphy, S. A., Nyiri, B., Paran, W., & White, N. (2017). Early Central Borneo Project: Archaeological Investigations In Pa' Lungan, Kelabit Highlands (2013-2015). Sarawak museum journal, 99, 57-117

Revisiting the Bujang Valley: A Southeast Asian entrepôt complex on the maritime trade route (2017)
Journal Article
Murphy, S. A. (2018). Revisiting the Bujang Valley: A Southeast Asian entrepôt complex on the maritime trade route. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 28(2), 355-389. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186317000505

Sema Stones and Mountain Palaces from the Dawn of Angkor (2017)
Digital Artefact
Latinis, D. K., & Murphy, S. A. (2017). Sema Stones and Mountain Palaces from the Dawn of Angkor

Globalizing Indian Religions and Southeast Asian Localisms: Incentives for the adoption of Buddhism and Brahmanism in 1st Millennium CE Southeast Asia (2017)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A., & Lefferts, H. L. (2017). Globalizing Indian Religions and Southeast Asian Localisms: Incentives for the adoption of Buddhism and Brahmanism in 1st Millennium CE Southeast Asia. In T. Hodos (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (768-788). Routledge

This paper employs “globalization” theory, dynamically incorporating space and time, geography and history, to challenge the notion that the development of Southeast Asian cultures along the global sea-faring arc between India and China can be best e... Read More about Globalizing Indian Religions and Southeast Asian Localisms: Incentives for the adoption of Buddhism and Brahmanism in 1st Millennium CE Southeast Asia.

Ports of call in ninth-century Southeast Asia: The route of the Tang Shipwreck (2017)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2017). Ports of call in ninth-century Southeast Asia: The route of the Tang Shipwreck. In A. Chong, & S. A. Murphy (Eds.), The Tang Shipwreck: art and exchange in the 9th century (234-249). Asian Civilisations Museum

Asia in the ninth century: the context of the Tang Shipwreck (2017)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2017). Asia in the ninth century: the context of the Tang Shipwreck. In A. Chong, & S. A. Murphy (Eds.), The Tang Shipwreck: art and exchange in the 9th century (12-20). Asian Civilisations Museum

The Tang Shipwreck: art and exchange in the 9th century (2017)
Book
Chong, A., & Murphy, S. A. (Eds.). (2017). The Tang Shipwreck: art and exchange in the 9th century. Asian Civilisations Museum

Cities and Kings: Treasures from Ancient Myanmar (2016)
Book
Murphy, S. A. (Ed.). (2016). Cities and Kings: Treasures from Ancient Myanmar. Asian Civilisations Museum

Cities and Kings: A journey through the art and archaeology of Myanmar (2016)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2016). Cities and Kings: A journey through the art and archaeology of Myanmar. In S. A. Murphy (Ed.), Cities and Kings: Treasures from Ancient Myanmar (14-21). Asian Civilisations Museum

The Pyu: an ancient civilization of upper Myanmar (2016)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A., & Kyaing, U. W. (2016). The Pyu: an ancient civilization of upper Myanmar. In S. A. Murphy (Ed.), Cities and Kings: Treasures from Ancient Myanmar (22-33). Asian Civilisations Museum

The case for proto-Dvaravati: A review of the art historical and archaeological evidence (2016)
Journal Article
Murphy, S. A. (2016). The case for proto-Dvaravati: A review of the art historical and archaeological evidence. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 47(3), 366-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463416000242

The mid-first millennium CE represents a crucial period in the emergence of early polities in Southeast Asia. However, disagreement remains between archaeologists and art historians as to the precise dating of this shift from prehistory to history. T... Read More about The case for proto-Dvaravati: A review of the art historical and archaeological evidence.

Introduction: Transitions from late prehistory to early historic periods in mainland Southeast Asia, c. early to mid-first millennium CE (2016)
Journal Article
Murphy, S. A., & Stark, M. T. (2016). Introduction: Transitions from late prehistory to early historic periods in mainland Southeast Asia, c. early to mid-first millennium CE. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 47(3), 333-340. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463416000229

Studies of early Southeast Asia focus largely on its ‘classical states’, when rulers and their entourages from Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (Thailand), Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar), Champa and Dai Viet (Vietnam) clashed, conquered, and intermarried... Read More about Introduction: Transitions from late prehistory to early historic periods in mainland Southeast Asia, c. early to mid-first millennium CE.

The Archaeology Issue (2016)
Other
(2016). The Archaeology Issue. Cambridge

Review of: The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor, vols 1-6: Edited by Charles F.W. Higham et al (2015)
Journal Article
Murphy, S. A. (2015). Review of: The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor, vols 1-6: Edited by Charles F.W. Higham et al. The Antiquaries Journal, 95, 373-377. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581515000232

How Many Monks? Quantitative And Demographic Archaeological Approaches To Buddhism In Northeast Thailand And Central Laos, 6th-11th Centuries Ce (2015)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2015). How Many Monks? Quantitative And Demographic Archaeological Approaches To Buddhism In Northeast Thailand And Central Laos, 6th-11th Centuries Ce. In D. C. Lammerts (Ed.), Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia (80-119). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814519076-005

This article explores a number of ways in which to reconstruct the possible extent of monastic Buddhism in the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati period. In an attempt to so, it is consequently multidisciplinary in its conception, being primarily ar... Read More about How Many Monks? Quantitative And Demographic Archaeological Approaches To Buddhism In Northeast Thailand And Central Laos, 6th-11th Centuries Ce.

Buddhist Architecture and Ritual Space in Thailand, Seventh to Ninth Century (2014)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2014). Buddhist Architecture and Ritual Space in Thailand, Seventh to Ninth Century. In J. Guy (Ed.), Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia (194-195). Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press

Sema Stones in Lower Myanmar and Northeast Thailand: A Comparison (2014)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2014). Sema Stones in Lower Myanmar and Northeast Thailand: A Comparison. In N. Revire, & S. A. Murphy (Eds.), Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology (353-371). River Books

Narrative art on Dvaravati sema stones from northeast Thailand consists primarily of jataka tales. Similarly, sema from Thaton, Lower Burma also depict jatakas and have invited comparison. Piriya Krairiksh for instance, argues that a group of Mons fl... Read More about Sema Stones in Lower Myanmar and Northeast Thailand: A Comparison.

Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology (2014)
Book
Murphy, S. A., & Revire, N. (Eds.). (2014). Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology. River Books and the Siam Society

The birth of Siam has been traditionally marked by the founding of the great city-states of Sukhothai and Ayutthaya respectively. These civilisations, however, grew out of a rich milieu of cultures and traditions in the region present from as far bac... Read More about Before Siam: Essays in Art and Archaeology.

Buddhism and its Relationship to Dvaravati Period Settlement Patterns and Material Culture in Northeast Thailand and Central Laos c. Sixth to eleventh centuries AD: A Historical Ecology Approach to the Landscape of the Khorat Plateau (2013)
Journal Article
Murphy, S. A. (2013). Buddhism and its Relationship to Dvaravati Period Settlement Patterns and Material Culture in Northeast Thailand and Central Laos c. Sixth to eleventh centuries AD: A Historical Ecology Approach to the Landscape of the Khorat Plateau. Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, 52(2), 300-323. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2013.0017

This article employs the research paradigm of historical ecology to investigate the spread and development of early Buddhism in the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati period. The movement of this religion into the region was largely determined by pr... Read More about Buddhism and its Relationship to Dvaravati Period Settlement Patterns and Material Culture in Northeast Thailand and Central Laos c. Sixth to eleventh centuries AD: A Historical Ecology Approach to the Landscape of the Khorat Plateau.

The Distribution of Sema Stones throughout the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati Period (2013)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2013). The Distribution of Sema Stones throughout the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati Period. In M. J. Klokke, & V. Degroot (Eds.), Unearthing Southeast Asia's past : selected papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. Volume 1 (215-233). NUS Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qv3nd.22

This paper analyses the distribution of Dvaravati period1 sema stones from evidence obtained during survey work carried out throughout Northeast Thailand and Laos.2 In total, 110 sites and over 1,200 sema stones have been recorded, representing the m... Read More about The Distribution of Sema Stones throughout the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati Period.