A Mobile Phone? Yes, I Want One! A Royal City? Yes, I Want One! How International Technology Met Local Demand in the Construction of Myanmar’s First Cities, 1800 Years Ago.

Bob Hudson

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A Mobile Phone? Yes, I Want One! A Royal City? Yes, I Want One! How International Technology Met Local Demand in the Construction of Myanmar’s First Cities, 1800 Years Ago.

Bob Hudson (University of Sydney, Australia.)

SUVANNABHUMI / SUVANNABHUMI, (P)2092-738X; (E)2799-7839

2014, v.6 no.1, pp.2-26

https://doi.org/10.22801/svn.2014.6.1.2

Bob, H. (2014). A Mobile Phone? Yes, I Want One! A Royal City? Yes, I Want One! How International Technology Met Local Demand in the Construction of Myanmar’s First Cities, 1800 Years Ago.. SUVANNABHUMI, 6(1), 2-26, https://doi.org/10.22801/svn.2014.6.1.2

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In the modern world, we can share information and new products as quickly as an email can be sent, or a parcel can be loaded onto an aircraft. But the brick-walled urban centres that sprung up in Myanmar around 150 CE suggest that ancient people could be just as excited about new information and products, even though the transmission of data and cultural objects followed a different path. These huge resource-intensive cities, inspired by the walled cities of India, were not built in sequence, as has been generally assumed, but in the same period. Once the Royal City arrived, the chiefly families of early First Millennium Upper Myanmar just had to have one.

keywords: Myanmar, Burma, archaeology, urbanism.

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