[colorado tanker]

I'm trying to get a feel for what was going on around 1 AD, about when these things were made. Laos was a sort of a fringe area. The Chinese dominated Vietnam to the east and proto-Khmer kingdoms were just to the south and influential. It appears Buddhism might not have been introduced yet. I would think these things would take quite a societal effort to produce, but there wasn't much formal organization to Laos at the time. Quite a puzzle.

[SunkenCiv]

Could be burials (there’s some sign of that), or could have been some kind of commercial site, and the jars were later reused for burials.