Deciduous and evergreen forests dominate the limestone karst formations of the northwestern highlands of Thailand. A vast number of caves and rock shelters intersperse the mountains. In over 40 such ...

The ancient peoples of the Philippines and of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) may have built sophisticated boats and mastered seafaring tens of thousands of years ago—millennia before Magellan, Zheng He, ...

For much of prehistory, Southeast Asia was not a scattering of islands separated by shallow seas. It was a single, immense landmass—low, fertile, and threaded with rivers—stretching from the Asian ...

Sundaland was the vast prehistoric landmass that once connected mainland Southeast Asia to what are now the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Bali when sea levels were far lower during the Ice Age ...

Metallurgical traditions in Southeast Asia evolved from isolated episodes of native copper working in the late third millennium BC to fully developed bronze and iron industries by the first millennium ...