Cambodian Archaeology
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Southeast Asia’s earliest cities emerged by the mid-first millennium CE after more than one thousand years’ growth toward urbanism and complexity. These early cities appeared both on the coasts and in river networks; their inhabitants... more
Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodia is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO World... more
Dougald O’Reilly, Louise Shewan, Kate Domett, Jennifer Newton, Damian Evans, Voeurn
Vuthy and Nancy Beavan
Vuthy and Nancy Beavan
This chapter summarizes the chronology, technology and contexts of earthenwares recovered from Cambodia's archaeological sites. It compares Cambodian archaeological ceramics with those found elsewhere in mainland Southeast Asia, and... more
At its apex, the Khmer empire was Southeast Asia’s largest and most influential civilization: its civilizational reach stretched across several of today’s nation-states, and its core contained one of the world’s largest pre-industrial... more
Early political, social and cultural history of Cambodia remains the realm of enigmas. Traditional accounts of a succession of the great kingdoms of Funan, Chenla and Angkor Empire (Briggs 1951; Coedès 1968) seem but a simplification.... more
This article provides a first edition, along with an annotated French translation, of an eighth-century Cambodian stone inscription in literary Sanskrit that was recovered from the river bank at Angkor Borei in 1993. Engraved in florid... more
This paper reviews the volume's collection of papers on historical and documentary approaches to ancient states. to do so, it explores the relationship between documentary and archaeological data for interpreting the origins of Angkor in... more