The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia
| dc.contributor.author | Carter, Alison Kyra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Klassen, Sarah | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stark, Miriam T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Polkinghorne, Martin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Heng, Piphal | |
| dc.contributor.author | Evans, Damian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chhay, Rachna | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-10T00:17:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-10T00:17:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-09 | |
| dc.description | 16 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent studies have suggested that both local autonomy and elite policies facilitated the development of these settlements; however, studies have been limited by a lack of detail in considering how, when, and why these factors contributed to the evolution of these sites. In this paper, we use a fine-grained diachronic analysis of Angkor’s landscape to identify both the state-level policies and infrastructure and bottom-up organization that spurred the growth of Angkor as the world’s most extensive pre-industrial settlement complex. This degree of diachronic detail is unique for the ancient world. We observe that Angkor’s low-density metropolitan area and higher-density civic-ceremonial center grew at different rates and independently of one another. While local historical factors contributed to these developments, we argue that future comparative studies might identify similar patterns. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The Authors thank the APSARA National Authority for their permission to conduct remote sensing and field investigations. Thanks also to Roland Fletcher for his support. Thank you to Terry and Eileen Lustig for their comments and suggestions on aspects of economic geography and Michael E. Smith for reading and offering comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Thanks to Malay So and Maryne Dana for administrative support. Research, planning, and writing of this manuscript was undertaken with the support of the University of Oregon Global Oregon Faculty Collaboration Fund supported by the Global Studies Institute in the UO Office of International Affairs. Data collection for parts of the research in this study have been funded by: the National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration under Grant 9602-14; Dumbarton Oaks under a Project Grant in Garden and Landscape Studies; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship; the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (#1638137); Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE150100756) and Council Discovery Grant (DP170102574); and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreements 639828 and 866454). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Carter, A. K., Klassen, S., Stark, M. T., Polkinghorne, M., Heng, P., Evans, D. H., & Chhay, R., (2021). The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 63, 1—16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101323 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101323 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-6331-2149 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416521000568?via%3Dihub | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27811 | |
| 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 | Urbanism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Agro-urbanism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Demography | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cambodia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Angkor | en_US |
| dc.subject | Southeast Asia | en_US |
| dc.title | The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |