Plain of Jars
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How it came to be
On a plateau in Xiengkhuang province, central Laos, large numbers of tubular stone jars lie scattered. They were used for burials in the Iron Age, from about 500 BC to AD 500, and the civilisation that made them vanished around AD 500.
The jars stand on hill slopes and spurs around the central plateau, with stone discs that may have been lids, secondary burials, grave markers and quarries. The area lies where two Iron Age worlds met, the Mun-Mekong and the Red River-Gulf of Tonkin, and the jars are thought to follow overland trade routes.
Seven jar sites have been cleared of unexploded bombs and opened to visitors. Fifteen components were inscribed in 2019.
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