Klong Thom: an ancient bead manufacturing location and an ancient entrepot

Abstract

Klong Thom, locally known as Khuan Luk Pad or the Bead Mound, first became known to archaeologists about thirty years ago as a result of a large number of beads either being uncovered by rain or looted from the Subsequently, work on Klong Thom have been written by Srisakra Vallibhotama (1973) [1], and by Douglas D. Anderson and Pornchai Suchitta (1979) [2]. Finds at the site suggest that it was an important historical and also a bead- site, perhaps once serving as an entrepôt or a port, manufacturing locality, and that it should therefore be excavated by historical archaeologists.