Champa and the Archaeology of My So'n

Hardy, Andrew [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Champa and the archaeology of My So'n (Vietnam) / ed. by Andrew Hardy, Mauro Cucarzi and Patrizia Zolese. - Singapore : NUS Press, 2009. - xxxiv, 440 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-9971-69-451-7
US$ 32,00
DDC: 959.703

Beschreibung
The kings of ancient Champa, a civilization located in the central region of today's Vietnam, started building sacred temples in a circular valley more than 1500 years ago. The monuments, now known by the Vietnamese name Mỹ So'n, were discovered by nineteenth-century colonial soldiers and first studied by the French architect Henri Parmentier. Bombed during the Vietnam War, the ruins of the brick towers, decorated with exquisite carvings and sculptures, were designated as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1999.
   An Italian team has worked at the site for the last ten years, doing archaeological research and restoration work in cooperation with Vietnamese specialists. This book is the first published volume based on their efforts. The opening section consists of historical, anthropological and architectural studies of the civilization of Champa. The remainder of the book presents an unusually intimate and extensively illustrated portrait of the archaeologists' research and restoration work at Mỹ So'n.

Inhalt
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Plates
Preface by Alfredo Matacotta Cordella
Forword by Richard A. Engelhardt
Acknowledgements
Andrew Hardy: Introduction
Pierre Baptiste: The Archaeology of Ancient Champa: the French Excavations
Hoang Dao Kinh: The Archaeology of Ancient Champa: the Vietnam-Poland conservation
Patrizia Zolese: The Archaeology of My So'n: Inspiration for the Italian Cooperation
PART 1: CHAMPA
1. Michael Vickery: A short history of Champa
2. Nguyen Dinh Dau: The Vietnamese Southward expansion, as viewed through the histories
3. Rie Nakamura: Awar-Ahier: two keys to the understanding the cosmology and ethnicity of the Cham people (Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam)
4. Andrew Hardy: Eaglewood and the economic history of Champa and Central Vietnam
5. John Guy: Artistic exchange, regional dialogue and the Cham territories
6. Tran Ky Phuo'ng: The architecture of the temple-towers of Ancient Champa (Central Vietnam)
PART 2: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MY SO'N (1997-2007)
7. Patrizia Zolese: Results of the Archaeological investigations of My So'n G Group (1997-2007)
8. Luigia Binda [u.a.]: Damage affecting structures and materials
9. Luigia Binda, Paola Condeleo: Construction techniques
10. Luigia Binda [u.a.]: Materials charactersation
11. Luigia Binda [u.a.]: Conservation design and intervention
12. Dang Khanh Ngoc: Restoration of the Laterite enclosure wall and rehabilitation of the original drainage system in My So'n G Group
13. Pham Van Hung [u.a.]: Neotectonic and geomorphological characteristics of the My So'n archaeological area
14. Marco Martini [u.a.]: Absolute dating of the My So'n monuments (G Group and E7) with the Thermoluminescence technique
15. Mauro Cucarzi [u.a.]: Geophysical investigation at My So'n archaeological site
16. Mauro Cucarzi [u.a.]: The My So'n geographic information system: archaeological risk mapping
Authors' affiliations
Bibliography
Index

Herausgeber
Andrew HARDY is Historian of Vietnam and has worked at the Hanoi centre of the École française d’Extrême-Orient since 2002.
Mauro CUCARZI is Director of the Lerici Foundation (Rome), a Specialist in non-invasive investigation of archaeological sites, and has worked in Asia for thirty years.
Patrizia ZOLESE is Chief Archaeologist at the Lerici Foundation (Rome) and has conducted archaeological research in South and Southeast Asia for thirty years.

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