Paper short abstract:

This paper will describe the results of four seasons of excavations at the moated Iron Age town of Non Ban Jak, located in the Mun Valley.

Paper long abstract:

Four seasons of excavations at Non Ban Jak, a large, a moated town. in the upper Mun Valley, have greatly added to our knowledge of the late Iron Age. Residential burials have been identified, in which the dead were interred within domestic buildings. Closed kilns for firing Phimai Black pottery vessels have been examined, and with the reovery of an iron ploughshare, linked with the identification of wet field weeds, an agricultural revolution has been proposed that helps to understand the transition into early states