The kingdom of . of time. The desirefor education is rapidly spreading, and the provin-cial authorities are as eager as the central departmentfor the work to be started. There are many difficulties in the way, the chiefbeing the want of money and the scarcity of suitableteachers. But these will be lessened in time, andthere are many cheering features, not the least ofwhich is the manifest enthusiasm and self-sacrificingwork of the Buddhist priests. These form a con-siderable part of the teaching staff of the primaryschools. They are for the most part keen teachers, full of14 2IO Kingdom
The kingdom of . of time. The desirefor education is rapidly spreading, and the provin-cial authorities are as eager as the central departmentfor the work to be started. There are many difficulties in the way, the chiefbeing the want of money and the scarcity of suitableteachers. But these will be lessened in time, andthere are many cheering features, not the least ofwhich is the manifest enthusiasm and self-sacrificingwork of the Buddhist priests. These form a con-siderable part of the teaching staff of the primaryschools. They are for the most part keen teachers, full of14 2IO Kingdom of Siam their work and excellent managers. Temples andpriests figure very largely in the work of education,and it is well that this is so. Little progress has as yet been made in the workof educating girls, and in the higher branches ofeducation much still remains to be done. At pres-ent the foundations are being laid, and if the moreornamental part has not yet appeared it is not alto-gether a bad sign for the CHAPTER XV ARCHAEOLOGY 211 CHAPTER XV SIAMESE ARCHEOLOGY—A SYNOPTICAL SKETCH BYCOLONEL GERINI SCARCELY any of those neolithic implementstypified in the shouldered Celt, which have beentraced in a continuous and homogeneous series allfrom Chutya-Nagpur in India through Quasi-totalAssam, Burmah, the Yun-nan borders, prehlstorLLaos, Kamboja, and the Malay Penin- Remains,sula, to the Archipelago, have so far been discoveredin Siam proper. The last find recorded is the headof a stone hatchet dug out a few years ago at somethirty feet below the surface of the ground on therailway works, at a point about six miles to the westof Korat. It is now in the Royal Museum at Bang-kok, Although there is ample evidence to showthat the ethnic element characterized by such imple-ments must have been in the early days also inoccupation of the Menam valley, for some reasonor other, chiefly, perhaps, on account of as yet 213 2 14 Kingdom of Siam insufficient and systematic explorat
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