Foreword by the President of the Siam Society
Preface by Chris Baker
Acknowledgments
Technical Notes
Map of Thailand

Prologue
What There Was Before Siam: Traditional Views/ Hiram Woodward 

Part I: transitions from late Prehistory to early history 
   Reconsidering the Palaeo-shoreline in the Lower Central Plain of Thailand/ Trongjai Hutangkura
   The Early Development of Coastal Polities in the Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula/ Bérénice Bellina et al.
   An Early Northwest Indian Decorated Bronze Bowl from Khao Sam Kaeo/ Ian C. Glover & Shahnaj Husne JaHan
   Contacts between the Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula and the Mediterranean World/ Brigitte Borell et al.
   Phromthin Tai: An Archaeological Perspective on Its Societal Transition/ Thanik Lertcharnrit

Part II: The Growing Emergence of Indic Material Culture
   Multi-religious Linkages across the Bay of Bengal during the First Millennium CE/ Himanshu Prabha Ray
   Conch-on-hip Images in Peninsular Thailand and Early Vaiṣṇava Sculpture in Southeast Asia/ Paul A. Lavy
   New Evidence of Early Brahmanical Vestiges in Pattani Province/ Wannasarn Noonsuk
   Pre-Angkorian Communities in the Middle Mekong Valley (Laos and Adjacent Areas)/ Michel Lorrillard
   Sampanago: “City of Serpents” and Muttama (Martaban)/ Elizabeth H. Moore & San Win

Part III: Early Buddhist Practices, Landscapes and Artefacts
   Glimpses of Buddhist Practices and Rituals in Dvāravatī and Its Neighbouring Cultures/ Nicolas Revire
   Dvāravatī Cakras: Questions of Their Significance/ Pinna Indorf 
   The Skeletons of Phong Tuek: Human Remains in Dvāravatī Ritual Contexts/ Wesley Clarke
   Monuments and Identity at the Dvāravatī Town of Kamphaeng Saen/ Matthew D. Gallon
   Sema Stones in Lower Myanmar and Northeast Thailand: A Comparison/ Stephen A. Murphy

Part IV: Later Khmer Impetus
   Tantric Buddhism at Prasat Hin Phimai: A New Reading of Its Iconographic Message/ Pia Conti 
   The Organisation of Space in Pre-modern Thailand under Jayavarman VII/ Hedwige Multzer o’Naghten

Contributors
General Index