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DR Stephen Murphy's Outputs (14)

The Prakhon Chai Hoard Debunked: Unravelling Six Decades of Myth, Misdirection, and Misidentification (2024)
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Hanwong, T., Hanwong, L., & Murphy, S. (in press). The Prakhon Chai Hoard Debunked: Unravelling Six Decades of Myth, Misdirection, and Misidentification. International Journal of Cultural Property, 31(2), 177-201. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739124000262

The so-called “Prakhon Chai Hoard” is one of Southeast Asia’s most infamous cases of looting. The story begins in 1964 when a cache of Buddhist bronzes from Northeast Thailand appeared on the international art market via the auction house Spink & Son... Read More about The Prakhon Chai Hoard Debunked: Unravelling Six Decades of Myth, Misdirection, and Misidentification.

Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases (2024)
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Murphy, S. (2024). Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases. Antiquity, 98(401), 1395-1495. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.129

Calls for the restitution and repatriation of cultural objects continue to escalate. High-profile cases such as the Parthenon Frieze and the Benin Bronzes dominate international news cycles and provoke fierce debate; however, less attention has been... Read More about Restitution and repatriation as an opportunity, not a loss: some reflections on recent Southeast Asian cases.

Introduction: Transitions from late prehistory to early historic periods in mainland Southeast Asia, c. early to mid-first millennium CE (2016)
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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 case for proto-Dvaravati: A review of the art historical and archaeological evidence (2016)
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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.

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)
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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.

Dvaravati Period Sema Stones: Shifting meanings and definitions in archaeology, epigraphy, texts and religious re-use (2010)
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Murphy, S. A. (2010). Dvaravati Period Sema Stones: Shifting meanings and definitions in archaeology, epigraphy, texts and religious re-use. RIAN THAI International Journal of Thai Studies, 3, 259-282

Sema stones, or Buddhist boundary markers as they are commonly known in English, are a well attested phenomenon in the religious landscape of Southeast Asia. In modern day Theravada Buddhism they demarcate the sacred precinct of the ubosot, either in... Read More about Dvaravati Period Sema Stones: Shifting meanings and definitions in archaeology, epigraphy, texts and religious re-use.

การแพร่กระจายของใบเสมาสมัยทวารวดีในที่ราบสูงโคราช [An Analysis of the Distribution of Dvaravati Period Sema stones in the Khorat Plateau] (2010)
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Murphy, S. A. (2010). การแพร่กระจายของใบเสมาสมัยทวารวดีในที่ราบสูงโคราช [An Analysis of the Distribution of Dvaravati Period Sema stones in the Khorat Plateau]. Muang Boran, 36(2), 71-91

Fifty Years of Archaeological Research at Dong Mae Nang Muang, an Ancient Gateway to the Upper Chao Phraya Basin (2010)
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Murphy, S. A., & Pongkasetkan, P. (2010). Fifty Years of Archaeological Research at Dong Mae Nang Muang, an Ancient Gateway to the Upper Chao Phraya Basin. Journal of the Siam Society, 98, 49-74

Dong Mae Nang Muang, in Banpotpisai district, Nakorn Sawan province is the present-day name for the site of Thanya Pura, one of the northernmost settlements of Dvaravati culture (6th–11th centuries CE) in central Thailand. Research conducted to date... Read More about Fifty Years of Archaeological Research at Dong Mae Nang Muang, an Ancient Gateway to the Upper Chao Phraya Basin.