- List of illustrations

- Acknowlegements

- Chronological table

1. Introduction
- Aspects of diversity
- The personality of Southeast Asia
- The history of archaeology in Southeast Asia
- Themes and approaches

2. Hunter-gatherer communities and early domestication
- The coast and hills of Bac Bo
- Coastal groups in Viet Nam
- A hunting and gathering tradition in the North Thai uplands
- The Northern Thai uplands : summary
- The hunter-gatherer occupation of the Chao Phraya plains
- Coastal settlement round the Gulf of Siam
- Domestication

3. The expansion of domestic communities
- The Khorat plateau
- A general cultural framework
- Non Nok Tha
- Ban Chiang
- Ban Na Di
- Other excavated sites in the northern Khorat plateau
- The southern Khorat plateau : Ban Chiang Hian and related sites
- Dating General Periods A and B
- The subsistence basis of General Periods A and B
- The human remains
- The material culture of General Periods A and B
- The social organisation
- The lower Chao Phraya valley
- The lower Mekong and its hinterlands
- The coastal plains of Central Viet Nam
- The Bac Bo region
- The expansion of domestic communities and the adoption of broze-working

4. The end of autonomy and emergence of chiefdoms
- Bac Bo : the Dong Son phases
- The Chao Phraya plains
- The Khorat plateau
- The uplands of Laos
- The Vietnamese coastal plains
- The transition from autonomy to centrality

5. The development of mandalas
- India and China
- Geographic regions which sustained mandalas
- The lower Mekong and the delta : A.D. c100-550
- The delta mandalas : summary
- Mandalas of the middle Mekong and the Tonle Sap plains : A.D. 550-802
- Zhenla mandalas : summary
- The Dvaravati mandalas of the Chao Phata plains and their antecedants : A.D. 200-950
- The Mun and Chi valleys in Northeast Thailand
- The Han : three border commanderies
- Bac Bo
- The mandalas of Champa
- The dynastic history of Linyi
- The archaeological remanins of Linyi : the Cham mandalas
- Champa : summary
- The formative stages of Southeast Asian civilisation : a review Summary

6. The Angkorian Mandalas
- The dynastic history and main historic events
- Taxation
- The means of destruction
- Agriculture
- The pursuit of perfection
- Summary and conclutions

7. Concluding remarks

- Refernces

- Index