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The evolution of agro-urbanism: A case study from Angkor, Cambodia

Carter, Alison Kyra; Klassen, Sarah; Stark, Miriam T.; Polkinghorne, Martin; Heng, Piphal; Evans, Damian; Chhay, Rachna (Elsevier, 2021-09)

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 ...
Temple occupation and the tempo of collapse at Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Stark, Miriam T.; Quintus, Seth; Zhuang, Yijie; Wang, Hong; Heng, Piphal; Chhay, Rachna; Carter, Alison Kyra (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-06-03)

The 9th–15th century Angkorian state was Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and Angkor Wat in the World Heritage site of Angkor is one of its largest religious monuments. Here we use excavation and chronometric ...
Urbanism and Residential Patterning in Angkor

Heng, Piphal; Stark, Miriam T.; Chhay, Rachna; Evans, Damian; Carter, Alison Kyra (Taylor and Francis, 2018-09-01)

The Khmer Empire (9th–15th centuries a.d.), centered on the Greater Angkor region, was the most extensive political entity in the history of mainland Southeast Asia. Stone temples constructed by Angkorian kings and elites ...