Picture: Daily News

 

Ancient artifacts including 16 clay jars have been found in a field in the village of Among in Tha Sawang sub-district of Surin in Thailand's north eastern region. 

 

Janya Rungreuang, 48, owns the land and was building a waterway and farm area known as a Khok Nong Na Model.

 

She said that the artifacts did not reveal themselves at first but the rains exposed one jar that were observed by relatives.

 

Locals thought it might be 300 years old.

 

The Fine Arts department were called in and the area was turned into an archaeological site with 16 jars and a wealth of other artifacts located all in the same spot, reported Daily News. 

 

They think it is evidence of a community that lived there more than 1,000 years ago. 

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

They think it is evidence of a community that lived there more than 1,000 years ago. 

Interesting, 1,000 years ago is before the Sukhotai Kingdom that existed from 1238 and until 1438, and also before the Angkor Wat-era, which began shortly after 1100.

Did they find my late mother-in-law's false teeth?

what was in the jars or were they just more empty vessels?

 

 

 

Wonder if the owner of the land also gets ownership of the jars, which could be worth a lot, or do the kind Thai authorities simply claim the entire find in the name of the State and take it away.

55 minutes ago, wombat said:

what was in the jars or were they just more empty vessels?

 

 

 

Premium quality Bpla-ra maybe...!

2 hours ago, steve73 said:

Premium quality Bpla-ra maybe...!

 The maybe Funeral Jars.....That would liven up your Phla Ra

6 hours ago, steve73 said:

Premium quality Bpla-ra maybe...!

That could actually be a possibility, as it's said that Pompei were famous for something similar, and Pompei vanished from the surface almost two thousand years ago, i.e. 79 a.d...????

4 hours ago, khunPer said:

That could actually be a possibility, as it's said that Pompei were famous for something similar, and Pompei vanished from the surface almost two thousand years ago, i.e. 79 a.d...????

That could actually be a possibility, as it's said that Pompei were famous for something similar, and Pompei vanished from the surface almost two thousand years ago, i.e. 79 a.d...

 

What is the evidence which was used to estimate the age of these jars ?

 

Im glad somchai pointed them out i may have mistaken them for grass or a puddle.

15 hours ago, khunPer said:

Interesting, 1,000 years ago is before the Sukhotai Kingdom that existed from 1238 and until 1438, and also before the Angkor Wat-era, which began shortly after 1100.

oh dear.... what if these artifacts prove that Siam was a vassal state conquered by foreigners back then........??

8 hours ago, bangon04 said:

oh dear.... what if these artifacts prove that Siam was a vassal state conquered by foreigners back then........??

It probably was, as it was before "Siam", i.e. the Sukhothai kingdom.

 

By the way, the old states had no names, they were known as city states or "Mueang", meaning a town with a defensive wall, and the Thai's city state therefore called "Mueang Thai". "Siam" was a name created by the Portuguese sailors late in the 1400s when they found Ayutthaya, and later official name of the country from 1782 till 1939 (plus 1946-1948)...????

23 minutes ago, khunPer said:

 "Siam" was a name created by the Portuguese sailors late in the 1400s when they found Ayutthaya, and later official name of the country from 1782 till 1939 (plus 1946-1948)...????

Sujit Wongtet looks very closely at the origins of "Siam" in one of his books. I can't find it right now but I think Jit Phumisak showed the origins of "Siam" going back to local Tai language, meaning a land of springs or something similar. There are references to "Siam" tht would be going back well before the 1400s I seem to remember. Jit Phumisak thought it was an area on the Mekhong in present Chiang Rai but Sujit Wongtet feels the evidence points to the Vientiane area. 

32 minutes ago, KhaoNiaw said:

Sujit Wongtet looks very closely at the origins of "Siam" in one of his books. I can't find it right now but I think Jit Phumisak showed the origins of "Siam" going back to local Tai language, meaning a land of springs or something similar. There are references to "Siam" tht would be going back well before the 1400s I seem to remember. Jit Phumisak thought it was an area on the Mekhong in present Chiang Rai but Sujit Wongtet feels the evidence points to the Vientiane area. 

Interesting, thanks.

 

Some mentions Siam as originating from the Pali, meaning "Land of Gold", i.e. suvaṇṇabhūmi, others says it originates the sanskrit-word Śyāma, meaning brown or dark. The more populisttic version is the Portuguese sailor's misunderstanding of Xian if the late 1400s, when they asked from where the people (i.e. the elite class) originated.