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Plain of Jars

More than 2,100 massive carved stone jars, some over 3 tonnes, scattered across 90+ sites on the highlands of Xieng Khouang, Laos - made by an Iron Age culture that left no written records and whose purpose (most likely mortuary) remains debated. Study of the sites is hampered by unexploded ordnance from the Vietnam War, which made this region the most heavily bombed place in history.

Dated events and their evidence

• 500 BCE mainstream
  main period of jar construction (Iron Age, c. 500 BCE-500 CE) source
• 2019 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

19.4167° N, 103.1500° E

Sources

• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1587/
• https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/plain-of-jars/

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