Louise Shewan

Dating the megalithic culture of laos: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence and U/Pb zircon results

Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly, Richard Armstrong, Phillip Toms, John Webb, Nancy Beavan, Thonglith Luangkhoth, Jamie Wood, Sian Halcrow, Kate Domett, Julie Van den Bergh, Nigel Chang

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS ONE

The megalithic jar sites of Laos (often referred to as the Plain of Jars) remain one of Southeast Asia's most mysterious and least..

Isotopic Insights into Mortuary Ritual in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia

Louise Shewan, Richard Armstrong, D O'reilly, S Halcrow, N Beavan, T Sokha

Journal article  |  2020  |  Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology

The use of coffins and jars as funerary receptacles was common across Southeast Asia. During the fifteenth to seventeenth centurie..

Baseline bioavailable strontium isotope values for the investigation of residential mobility and resource-acquisition strategies in prehistoric Cambodia

LG Shewan, RA Armstrong, D O'Reilly

Journal article  |  2020  |  ARCHAEOMETRY

Strontium (Sr) isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) measured in human skeletal material can increase one's understanding of the residential ..

Jars of the jungle: A report on newly discovered and documented megalithic jar sites in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Nicholas Skopal, Souliya Bounxaythip, Louise Shewan, Dougald O’Reilly, Thonglith Luangkhoth, Julie Van Den Bergh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Asian Archaeology

Xieng Khouang and neighboring provinces in Central Laos are home to a vast megalithic landscape featuring large stone jars, discs,..

Research at megalithic jar site 52 and the discovery of new jar sites in Xiang Khouang Province, Laos

Dougald O’Reilly, Louise Shewan, Mailo Khamphouvong, Amphai Butphachit

Journal article  |  2020  |  Asian Archaeology

Resource Utilisation and Regional Interaction in Protohistoric Cambodia -- the Evidence from Angkor Borei. Journal:

Louise Shewan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Angkor Borei is a protohistoric (ca. 500 BCE − 500 CE) site in southern Cambodia (Takeo Province), on the western edge of the Meko..

Social Status and Its Relationship to Non-specific Stress at Late Iron Age Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand

Stacey Ward, Siân Halcrow, Hallie Buckley, Andrew Gray, Charles Higham, Kate Domett, Dougald O’Reilly, Louise Shewan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Bioarchaeology International

The rise of social inequality is a key development in human history and is linked to deteriorating health. These associated health..

New insights into Metabolic Syndrome among ancient populations in mainland Asia

Nellissa Ling, Sian Halcrow, Marc Oxenham, Kate Domett, Stacey Ward, Charles Higham, Dougald O'Reilly, Louise Shewan, Mai Huong Nguyen Thi, Thi Minh Tran, Huu Nghia Truong, Trinh Hiep Hoang, Hallie Buckley

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Innovation or continuation? Development of wet-rice agriculture in Prehistoric Northeast Thailand

Jessica Schalburg-Clayton, Charlotte King, Hallie Buckley, Sian Halcrow, Charles Higham, Louise Shewan, Christina Stantis, Dougald O'Reilly, Kate Domett, Jana Zech, Patrick Roberts

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Plain of Jars. Researching a newly inscribed World Heritage site

Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly

Journal article  |  2020  |  Current World Archaeology