From a 27-meter dinosaur to one of Southeast Asia’s earliest Bronze Age cultures.
Treasures & Tales is our editorial series tracing the histories, places, and people behind heritage jewelry. This dispatch travels to Isan, in northeastern Thailand.
Not every discovery starts in a lab. Some begin with a walk by a pond.
In 2016, Uncle Thanom stumbled upon massive bones rising from the earth. Nearly a decade later, they were named “Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis” — Southeast Asia’s largest dinosaur, stretching 27 meters long.
What makes this land even more fascinating is that, millions of years later, it became home once again. This time to humans.
The region would go on to host some of the most advanced Bronze Age communities 3,000 years ago.
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