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French archaeologist well known for his work in southeast Asia. He spent most of his career in French Indochina and Siam, during which time he discovered and explored in some detail the Srivijaya empire of Indonesia. Amongst more than 300 publications, he is best known for his synthesis of the early states in Indonesia first published in French in 1944 and later translated into English as
The Indianized states of southeast Asia
(1969, Honolulu: East-West Centre). In 1946, after seventeen years in Hanoi, he went to Paris where he was appointed Professor of Southeast Asian History at L'École des Langues Orientales. There he stayed and retained the position of curator of the Musée d'Ennery, until his death. Coedès' personal library, a collection of more than 6000 volumes, is now housed with the Australian National University in Canberra.
[Bio.: A. Nugent , 1996, Asia's French connection: George Coedès and the Coedès collection.
National Library of Australia News
, 6(4), 6–8]

 
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The sunken panels used in decorating marble ceilings in important Greek and Roman buildings.

 
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A wooden box used to contain a human corpse prior to burial and usually deposited in the grave or cremated with the body. Many different kinds of coffin can be recognized from archaeological evidence, including plank-built examples (sometimes represented only by the nails that pinned the planks together) and
MONOXYLOUS COFFINS
made from one piece of timber. Coffins are culturally highly distinctive.

 
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Client king of the Atrebatic people in the early years of Roman rule, he styled himself Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus after the Emperor Claudius. Cogidubnus remained loyal to Rome throughout his life and may have been rewarded with the Fishbourne palace.

 
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Human thought processes involving perception, reasoning, and remembering.

 
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A branch of archaeology that is primarily concerned with the study of past ways of thinking and symbolic structures from patterns in material culture.

 
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