10 From Funan to Angkor Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia Miriam T. Stark The cyclical quality of ancient states (Adams 1988; Feinman 1998; Marcus 1998;Yoffee 1988b) is abundantly evident in mainland Southeast Asia, where multiple and overlapping histories of collapseand regeneration characterized the region from the first millennium AD onward (Hutterer 1982:562; Stark and Allen 1998). Many areas experienced this first pulse of state formation, from the Irawaddy River valley of Myanmar and the Chao Phraya delta of Thailand to the Bac Bo region of northernVietnam. The archaeological record of early Southeast Asia involves nucleated settlements and religious monuments that suggest a close articulation of religious ideology and sociopolitical organiza- tion (see also Hagesteijn 1996:187). The very monumentality of the ninth-fourteenth century Angkorian empire may explain why scholarship on ancient Cambodia continues to fo- cus on the latter period of ancient Khmer civilization rather than on its ear- lier periods. Yet the Angkorian state represents the endpoint in a 1,500-year developmental sequence, the beginnings of which lie in the late prehistoric period. From the mid first millennium AD onward, Khmers constructed brick, stone, and laterite monuments with dedicatory stelae bearing Khmer, Sanskrit, or Khmer and Sanskrit inscriptions; these constitute the primary indigenous documentary source. Conventional historiography (e.g., Briggs 1951; Coedes 1968; Wheatley 1983) depends inordinately on Chinese docu- mentary evidence rather than on indigenous inscriptions to reconstruct ancient Khmer history. Resultant reconstructions are problematic (Jacques 1979:371; Stark 1998), as Chinese dynastic annals describe "kingdoms" that emissaries encountered, while most indigenous inscriptions record the be- neficence of aspiring elite individuals. While the Chinese documentary record focuses on periods of politi- cal consolidation and dissolution through time, indigenous documents Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia 145 emphasize long-term political unity and continuity. Beginning no later than the mid first millennium AD, individual Khmer states rose and fell for more than nine centuries. External documentary sources misrepresent the region's actual history, which counterpoised conflict and power struggles of individual rulers against persistent social and ideological institutions for many centuries (Vickery 1998; Wolters 1979). If Khmer states were inherently fragile, then what accounts for the per- sistence of the Khmer civilization for more than a thousand years? And, following George Cowgill (1988:275), how closely was the Angkorian Ion- gevity connected to degrees and kinds of economic, political, and social integration? This chapter examines the nature of collapse and regeneration in ancient Cambodia by identifying points of continuity and discontinuity in the se- quence. Sociopolitical change in ancient Khmer civilization appears to have assumed two primary forms: (1) collapse and regeneration of economicand social institutions that mark the life spans of individual "states" (some of which the Chinese described), and (2) some continuity in elites' practice of Indic religious ideologies to legitimate their claims to power, which or- dered the political organization of the first- and second-millennium Khmer states.' That continuity in the"cultura1 matrix" (Wolters 1999) characterizes the ancient Khmer civilization through time is becomingly increasingly clear as research on ancient Cambodia accelerates. This syncretism melded as- pects of Indic ideology with an emergent Khmer cultural identity and was embodied in elite practice and temple construction. It proved instrumen- tal in regenerating Khmer states during the turbulence that characterized Cambodia's early history. HistoricalSequence Cambodia's ancient history is among the least known in SoutheastAsia,owing to decades of civil war and a parochial, colonialist tradition of historiography that has only recently been challenged. Most scholars have relied on exter- nal documentary sources such as Chinese annals, contemporary inscriptions (in Sanskrit and Khmer), and retrospectiveAngkorian period allusions to the pre-Angkorian period to reconstruct a dynastic history of Khmer civilization. Problems are inherent in taking either the inscriptions or the Chinese sources literally or privileging one source over the other (Jacques 1979,1995;Vickery 1994,1998). Both sources probably sought to elevate existing polities to king-
146 Miriam T. Stark dom status: the former out of self-aggrandizement and legitimation, and the latter out of self-promotion. Archaeological research has played a secondary role in studying the Cambodian historical sequence, for political as well as historical reasons. Yet archaeological research in neighboring Thailand documents a continu- ous trend toward increasing complexity in the first millennium BC and the emergence of relatively stratified societies by the time of contact with South Asia (Higham 2002:193-212). The name "Funan" was applied to the earliest state in the Mekong delta (fig. io.~), which emissaries visited during the third and sixth centuries AD (Coedks 1968; Pelliot 1903). Chinese annals and indigenous inscriptions (in Khmer and in Sanskrit) also document a successor state to Funan in the lower Mekong basin that materialized in the seventh century AD along the banks of the Mekong River in central Cambodia. The third polity ap- peared two centuries later in the northwestern region of the country and is known as Angkor. Its florescence after the ninth century AD and collapse six centuries later created the Khmer empire, the largest territorial entity in mainland Southeast Asia. A growing body of archaeological and historical research on these polities is forcing scholars to revise their conventional models of political structure and process. Cultural Chronology The following periods demarcate the political history of ancient Cambodia (table 10.1): (1) the early historic period, which straddles the boundary be- tween the Iron Age and the historic period; (2) the pre-Angkorian period, a term that Cambodian scholars have used for nearly a century; (3) the early Angkorian period, to designate the period during which the Angkorian pol- ity was established and developed; and (4) the mature Angkorian period, to identify the period of the Khmer empire's greatest expansion. The Khmer empire did not collapse until some point during the mid fifteenth century, but the period after AD 1250 is excluded because this era involved a gradual decline in the political and economic prominence of the region from which the Khmer state never recovered. The term "state" is used here to refer to a polity characterized by at least two classes of social strata, in which the government is centralized and specialized (following Feinman 1998). Determining scalar differences between successive Cambodian states is essential to understanding their structure, where scale refers to the extent of territorial integration (follow- Figure 10.1 Mainland SoutheastAsia during the early first millennium AD (afterHal 1985). Table 10.1 Temporal frameworkfor Southeast Asia -- -- - Time period -- Date range Cultural development Early Historic Pre-Angkorian Early Angkorian -500 BC--AD 500 Origin of earliest state and development of international maritime trade AD 500--800 Adoption of indigenouswriting and expansion of early states AD 802-1000 Founding and expansion of the Khmer empire Mature Angkorian AD 1001-1250 Florescence of the Khmer empire
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Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia
From Funan to Angkor
Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Cambodia
Miriam T. Stark
The cyclical quality of ancient states (Adams 1988; Feinman 1998; Marcus
1998;Yoffee 1988b) is abundantly evident in mainland Southeast Asia, where
multiple and overlapping histories of collapseand regeneration characterized
the region from the first millennium AD onward (Hutterer 1982:562; Stark and
Allen 1998). Many areas experienced this first pulse of state formation, from
the Irawaddy River valley of Myanmar and the Chao Phraya delta of Thailand
to the Bac Bo region of northernVietnam. The archaeological record of early
Southeast Asia involves nucleated settlements and religious monuments that
suggest a close articulation of religious ideology and sociopolitical organization (see also Hagesteijn 1996:187).
The very monumentality of the ninth-fourteenth century Angkorian
empire may explain why scholarship on ancient Cambodia continues to focus on the latter period of ancient Khmer civilization rather than on its earlier periods. Yet the Angkorian state represents the endpoint in a 1,500-year
developmental sequence, the beginnings of which lie in the late prehistoric
period. From the mid first millennium AD onward, Khmers constructed
brick, stone, and laterite monuments with dedicatory stelae bearing Khmer,
Sanskrit, or Khmer and Sanskrit inscriptions; these constitute the primary
indigenous documentary source. Conventional historiography (e.g., Briggs
1951; Coedes 1968; Wheatley 1983) depends inordinately on Chinese documentary evidence rather than on indigenous inscriptions to reconstruct
ancient Khmer history. Resultant reconstructions are problematic (Jacques
1979:371; Stark 1998), as Chinese dynastic annals describe "kingdoms" that
emissaries encountered, while most indigenous inscriptions record the beneficence of aspiring elite individuals.
While the Chinese documentary record focuses on periods of political consolidation and dissolution through time, indigenous documents
145
emphasize long-term political unity and continuity. Beginning no later
than the mid first millennium AD, individual Khmer states rose and fell for
more than nine centuries. External documentary sources misrepresent the
region's actual history, which counterpoised conflict and power struggles
of individual rulers against persistent social and ideological institutions for
many centuries (Vickery 1998; Wolters 1979).
If Khmer states were inherently fragile, then what accounts for the persistence of the Khmer civilization for more than a thousand years? And,
following George Cowgill (1988:275), how closely was the Angkorian Iongevity connected to degrees and kinds of economic, political, and social
integration?
This chapter examines the nature of collapse and regeneration in ancient
Cambodia by identifying points of continuity and discontinuity in the sequence. Sociopolitical change in ancient Khmer civilization appears to have
assumed two primary forms: (1) collapse and regeneration of economicand
social institutions that mark the life spans of individual "states" (some of
which the Chinese described), and (2) some continuity in elites' practice
of Indic religious ideologies to legitimate their claims to power, which ordered the political organization of the first- and second-millennium Khmer
states.'
That continuity in the"cultura1 matrix" (Wolters 1999) characterizes the
ancient Khmer civilization through time is becomingly increasingly clear
as research on ancient Cambodia accelerates. This syncretism melded aspects of Indic ideology with an emergent Khmer cultural identity and was
embodied in elite practice and temple construction. It proved instrumental in regenerating Khmer states during the turbulence that characterized
Cambodia's early history.
HistoricalSequence
Cambodia's ancient history is among the least known in SoutheastAsia,owing
to decades of civil war and a parochial, colonialist tradition of historiography
that has only recently been challenged. Most scholars have relied on external documentary sources such as Chinese annals, contemporary inscriptions
(in Sanskrit and Khmer), and retrospectiveAngkorian period allusions to the
pre-Angkorian period to reconstruct a dynastic history of Khmer civilization.
Problems are inherent in taking either the inscriptions or the Chinese sources
literally or privileging one source over the other (Jacques 1979,1995;Vickery
1994,1998). Both sources probably sought to elevate existing polities to king-
146
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dom status: the former out of self-aggrandizement and legitimation, and the
latter out of self-promotion.
Archaeological research has played a secondary role in studying the
Cambodian historical sequence, for political as well as historical reasons.
Yet archaeological research in neighboring Thailand documents a continuous trend toward increasing complexity in the first millennium BC and the
emergence of relatively stratified societies by the time of contact with South
Asia (Higham 2002:193-212).
The name "Funan" was applied to the earliest state in the Mekong delta
(fig. io.~),which emissaries visited during the third and sixth centuries AD
(Coedks 1968; Pelliot 1903). Chinese annals and indigenous inscriptions
(in Khmer and in Sanskrit) also document a successor state to Funan in
the lower Mekong basin that materialized in the seventh century AD along
the banks of the Mekong River in central Cambodia. The third polity appeared two centuries later in the northwestern region of the country and
is known as Angkor. Its florescence after the ninth century AD and collapse
six centuries later created the Khmer empire, the largest territorial entity in
mainland Southeast Asia. A growing body of archaeological and historical
research on these polities is forcing scholars to revise their conventional
models of political structure and process.
Cultural Chronology
The following periods demarcate the political history of ancient Cambodia
(table 10.1): (1) the early historic period, which straddles the boundary between the Iron Age and the historic period; (2) the pre-Angkorian period, a
term that Cambodian scholars have used for nearly a century; (3) the early
Angkorian period, to designate the period during which the Angkorian polity was established and developed; and (4) the mature Angkorian period, to
identify the period of the Khmer empire's greatest expansion. The Khmer
empire did not collapse until some point during the mid fifteenth century,
but the period after AD 1250 is excluded because this era involved a gradual
decline in the political and economic prominence of the region from which
the Khmer state never recovered.
The term "state" is used here to refer to a polity characterized by at
least two classes of social strata, in which the government is centralized
and specialized (following Feinman 1998). Determining scalar differences
between successive Cambodian states is essential to understanding their
structure, where scale refers to the extent of territorial integration (follow-
Figure 10.1 Mainland SoutheastAsia during the early first millennium AD (afterHall 1985).
Table 10.1 Temporal frameworkfor Southeast Asia
--
--
-
Time period
Early Historic
-
Date range
-500 BC--AD
Cultural development
500
Origin of earliest stateand development of
internationalmaritime trade
Pre-Angkorian
AD 500--800
Adoption of indigenous writing and expansion
of early states
Early Angkorian
AD 802-1000
Founding and expansion of the Khmer empire
Mature Angkorian
AD 1001-1250
Florescenceof the Khmer empire
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