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The Khmer did not live by rice alone: Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm
| dc.contributor.author | Castillo, Cristina Cobo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kingwell-Banham, Eleanor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zhuang, Yijie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Weisskopf, Alison | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chhay, Rachna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Heng, Piphal | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fuller, Dorian Q. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stark, Miriam | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, Alison Kyra | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-09T23:43:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-09T23:43:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-12 | |
| dc.description | 21 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The Angkorian Empire was at its peak from the 10th to 13th centuries CE. It wielded great influence across mainland Southeast Asia and is now one of the most archaeologically visible polities due to its expansive religious building works. This paper presents archaeobotanical evidence from two of the most renowned Angkorian temples largely associated with kings and elites, Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm. But it focuses on the people that dwelt within the temple enclosures, some of whom were involved in the daily functions of the temple. Archaeological work indicates that temple enclosures were areas of habitation within the Angkorian urban core and the temples and their enclosures were ritual, political, social, and economic landscapes. This paper provides the first attempt to reconstruct some aspects of the lives of the non-elites living within the temple enclosures by examining the archaeobotanical evidence, both macroremains and phytoliths, from residential contexts and data derived from inscriptions and Zhou Daguan's historical account dating to the 13th century CE. Research indicates that plants found within the temple enclosure of Ta Prohm and Angkor Wat were grown for ritual or medicinal use, and also formed important components of the diet and household economy. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | We wish to thank the APSARA National Authority for their collaboration and permission to undertake excavations within the Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm enclosures. We thank So Malay and Martin King for administrative support, and Greater Angkor Project 2013–2015 field crew members, whose labor supported this research. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [grant number DP1092663]. The 2015 fieldwork at Angkor Wat was also supported by the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration Grant and a Dumbarton Oaks Project Grant. The phytolith samples from Angkor Wat were collected by Tegan McGillivray in 2015, processed at University College London by Lindsay Duncan, counted by Alison Weisskopf and analysed by Eleanor Kingwell-Banham. Archaeobotanical research at Ta Prohm was supported by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [grant number NE/N010957/1]. We also wish to thank The Robert Christie Foundation. Finally, we would like to thank Philip Piper for the financial support of the dating of botanical remains through the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship [grant number FT100100527] and Rachel Wood for radiocarbon dating the samples. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Castillo, C. C., Carter, A. K., Kingwell-Banham, E., Zhuang, Y., Weisskopf, A., Chhay, R., & Stark, M. (2020). The Khmer did not live by rice alone: Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm. Archaeological Research in Asia, 24, 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100213 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100213 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6331-2149 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352226720300258?via%3Dihub | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27808 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Inscriptions | en_US |
| dc.subject | Household gardens | en_US |
| dc.subject | Non-elites | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economic crops | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rice | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cotton | en_US |
| dc.title | The Khmer did not live by rice alone: Archaeobotanical investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |