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Map of South-east Asia - 2000-500 BC Bronze Age
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Events
2000 BC
Transitional phase from Neolithic to Bronze Age
2000 BC
Around this time bronze-working technology is introduced, probably from China
1500 BC
End of the late Neolithic phase
1500 BC
Mon people enter Burma
1000 BC
People in north-west Cambodia live in houses on stilts with a diet of fish and cultivated rice
500 BC
Bronze-working technology reaches island Southeast Asia
500 BC
Iron-working technology introduced to mainland Southeast Asia
500 BC
Villages begin to develop into centralised chiefdoms
South-east Asia

2000-500 BC Bronze Age

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