"The people moved about in quest of a place, "where water is clear and grass tender"... Since 1998, the Department of Archaeology has excavated seven Bronze and Iron Age cemetery sites in Upper Myanmar ... At the first three sites listed below, referred to here as the Chindwin group, the principal grave goods were pottery, stone tools, bronze axes and swords, and ceremonial stone rings. Similar artefacts have been recovered during survey at a number of sites in the Lower Chindwin ... At the other four excavated sites, the Samon group, the grave goods again included pottery, stone and bronze artefacts. Some pieces, such as stone rings, are comparable to those of the Chindwin, but for the most part are different in form and composition. Bronzes include "mother goddess" figures, kye doke (bronze packets), and floral coffin ornaments. Iron and glass artefacts were also recovered. These included weapons such as swords, spearheads and arrowheads and agricultural implements such as socketed hoes. The sites are part of a larger distribution extending south to at least to Pyinmana in the Samon valley on the east of the central Ayeyarwaddy basin..." ...text, photos and tables.