<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Alice,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply and comment. Sorry, I didn’t put a scale in the photos, but the diameter is ca. 5-6 cm, it is quite large. The prototype of this ear spool appears in Neolithic, about 4,000 years ago, in Thailand and Mainland Southeast Asia.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Thanik<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 11 Aug BE 2561, at 1:17 AM, Alice Choyke <<a href="mailto:choyke@gmail.com">choyke@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Don't laugh but late prehistoric North American (Mississipian Culture), Meso and South America has similar objects which are called ear spools. This is obviously something that was invented and reinvented a number of times closer to your region. What is the scale?<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Alice</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:39 PM, Thanik Lertcharnrit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thanik.lertcharnlit@gmail.com" target="_blank">thanik.lertcharnlit@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I made a visit to a small local high school museum in Lopburi province, east-central Thailand today and found this interesting item. I believe it is a marine shell ear ornament dating to late prehistoric period, ca. 2000-2500 BP, in the context of Southeast Asia, and is a grave offering. I wonder if anyone has seen similar item.<br>
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Thanik<br>
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Silpakorn University<br>
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