Prof Srisakara Vallibhotama

Published on August 19, 2007

Reading: "Early Landscapes of Myanmar" by Elizabeth Moore

Elizabeth Moore is an archaeology lecturer

at the University of London and her "Early

Landscapes of Myanmar" presents up-to-

date descriptions of major Burmese

archaeological sites. The author has done a

lot of fieldwork over the past decade, and

the result is an authoritative book that

highlights new archaeological data, much

of which has never been published before.

I'm particularly impressed by the amount of

effort that Moore has put into compiling

new archaeological findings. It's important

to realise that research about Burmese sites

has been under-reported over the past

years, so it's a delight to see many ancient

structures covered in this single volume,

something you can't find elsewhere. I also

liked the fact that the author doesn't focus

too much on the theoretical, which is why

it's so readable and accessible. I've learned a lot from this book."