Paul Wheatley's Point

Paul Wheatley made the original point that the archaeological and inscriptional evidence for early Mon civilization was thin in his work Nagara and Commandery (1983).

Of course it was thin compared to neighboring Southeast Asian countries. Burma had been under isolationist Socialist rule for more than 20 years.

Paul Wheatley should be more thoroughly acknowledged as the source of the original idea. He is not even in the index to your book: The Mists of Rammana.