<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92b3c079-f8fd-4ce9-9250-d4f3ab8115e8/67BCFA8F-CFA4-4635-AAE2-A6497741E45C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm" href="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.seasite.niu.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm"><P align="CENTER"><FONT size="4"><B>THE ART AND CULTURE OF BURMA </B> </FONT><I><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="4"> </FONT></SPAN></I><FONT size="4"> <B>Dr. Richard M. Cooler</B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="50%" align="center"><I> <B>Professor<SPAN lang="en-us"> Emeritus</SPAN> Art History of Southeast Asia </B></I><B><I> <SPAN lang="en-us">Northern Illinois University</SPAN></I></B></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm"><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><B><SPAN lang="en-us"><A href="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/Intro/BurmaArt_Intro.htm"> Overview</A>: Purpose, Extended Contents, Acknowledgements, and Geographical Overview</SPAN></B></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm"><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><SPAN> <A href="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/Synoptic_Overview.htm">Art History of Bu<SPAN lang="en-us">r</SPAN>ma</A>: Synoptic Overview</SPAN></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/BurmaArt_TOC.htm"><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><B><SPAN lang="en-us"> <A href="http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Burmese/Cooler/Chapter_1/Chapter_1.htm">Chapter 1</A> - </SPAN> <SPAN>P<SPAN lang="en-us">rehistoric</SPAN> <SPAN lang="en-us">and</SPAN> A<SPAN lang="en-us">nimist</SPAN> P</SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us">eriods</SPAN></B></FONT><FONT size="3"><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN>c. 1100 BC to c. 200 AD<SPAN lang="en-us">: </SPAN>Paleolithic and Neolithic sites, Animism, and Karen Bronze Drums</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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