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Introduction: "Myanmar
is
located
between
the
east
Himalayan
syntaxis
and
the
Andaman
Sea
to
the
south,
washed
by
the
Bay
of
Bengal
on
the on west,
Myanmar
links
Alpine-Himalayan
rogenic
belt
to
the
west
with
its
extension
in
the
rest
of
Southeast
Asia.
Myanmar
lies
in
the
Southeastern
Asia,
bordering
the
Andaman
Sea
and
the
Bay
of
Bengal,
between
Bangladesh
and
Thailand.
Myanmar
is
the
biggest
country
in
the
mainland
Southeast
Asia.
It
has
a
total
area
of
678,500
sq.
km.
Of
this,
land
covers
657,740
sq.
km,
and
water
covers
20,760
sq.
km.
The
total
length
of
national
boundary
is
5,876
km,
bordering
with
five
neighboring
countries:
Bangladesh
at
193
km;
China
at
2,185
km;
India
at
1,463
km;
Lao PDR
at
235
km
and
Thailand
with
a
shared
boundary
of
1,800
km.
There
is
also
1,930km
of
coastline.
Eocene
age
primates
found
in
the
Pondaung
Formation
are
represented
by
Pondaungia
cotteri
Pilgrim,
1927,
Amphipithecus
mogcmngensis
Colbert,
1937,
Bahinia
pondaungensis
Jaeger
et
al.,
1999,
and
Myanmarpithecus
ytmhensis
Takai
et
al.,
2001.
Homo erectus
had
lived
in
Myanmar
750,000
years
ago,
and
the
Homo
sapiens
about
11,000
BCE,
in
a
Stone
Age
culture
called
the
Anyathian
named
after
the
sites
found
in
the
Dry
Zone
of
Central
Myanmar.
The
Padah-lin
caves
located
in
Ywa-ngan
Township,
Southern
Shan
State
uncovered
more
than
1,600
stone
artifacts
of
the
Neolithic
Age
which
are
dated
between
11,000
to
6,000
BCE
and
also
found
wall
paintings.
The
Bronze
Age
evidences
which
dated
1500
BCE
were
found
in
Nyaunggan,
Budalin
Township.
The
Iron
Age
arrived
around
500
BCE
when
iron-working
settlements
emerged
in
a
lying
to
the
south
of
present
day
Mandalay
and
near
Bagan.
The
Pyu
people,
the
earliest
inhabitants
of
Myanmar
moved
into
the
upper
Ayeyarwady
valley
from
present
day
Yunnan,
China
around
200
BCE.
The
Pyu
were
followed
by
the
Mon,
the
Ra
khine
and
the
Bamar
in
the
first
millennium
CE.".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015.
ရင်းမြစ်:
International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015
Date of Publication:
2015-07-26
Date of entry:
2015-09-09
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