Ref ID:	19701
Ref Type:	BAR Section
Authors:	Jacques, Claude
Title:	New data on the VII-VIIIth centuries in the Khmer land
Date:	1990
Source:	Southeast Asian Archaeology 1986: Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists in Western Europe
Place of Publication:	Oxford
Publisher:	British Archaeological Reports
Abstract:	Two new inscriptions recently found in Thailand brought important and unexpected elements to our understanding of Khmer history in the Preangkorian period. One of them presents the genealogy of a prince and lets us know the family ties linking some important kings of this period, which previously were wrongly understood. The second one gives more data for the genealogical chart and Khmer history, supplemented by new remarks on some inscriptions already known. The improvement of the genealogy goes beyond the simple knowledge of the kinship in a royal family. It confirms the idea that the political structure of ancient Khmer land was much more complex than the Chinese Annals allow us to suppose. The territory was probably divided into a multiplicity of small kingdoms or principalities, the greatest part of which we know nothing about. Some of these were no doubt at times united under the rule of a single king but these kingdoms remained unstable and short-lived.
Date Created:	2/18/2001
Editors:	Glover, Ian C. Glover, Emily
Volume:	561
Page Start:	251
Page End:	260
Series Title:	BAR International Series