Ref ID:	18950
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Stark, Miriam Fehrenbach, Shawn
Title:	Earthenware ceramic technologies of Angkor Borei, Cambodia
Date:	2019
Source:	Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies
Abstract:	This paper explores the technology of earthenware ceramic traditions from the archaeological site of Angkor Borei (Takeo Province, Cambodia). Excavations at the Angkor Borei site from 1996-2000 by the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project produced a well-dated chronological sequence of locally-manufactured earthenware ceramics that spans the period from c. 5 00 BCE – 200 CE. Here we review the range of earthenware technological traditions reflected in the excavated archaeological, and focus in detail on the technology and geochemistry ceramics recovered from an excavation trench into the southern edge of the Vat Komnou mound, located in the central section of the community’s lower segment. We use a technologie approach to contrast a localized geochemical signature in the Angkor Borei ceramic assemblage with particular morphological and production-related characteristics that reveal broader technological traditions through cultural transmission. In some cases, and at some points in the sequence, aspects of the Angkor Borei earthenware ceramic assemblage echo technological traditions encompass much of the Lower and Middle Mekong regions in which protohistoric populations interacted.
Volume:	14
Page Start:	109
Page End:	135