Ref ID:	24040
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Fletcher, Roland Penny, Dan Barbetti, Mike Pottier, Christophe Than, Heng Chan, Khieu Somaneath, Tous
Title:	The Greater Angkor Project 2005-2009: issues and program
Date:	2006
Source:	Uncovering Southeast Asia's past: selected papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists
Place of Publication:	Singapore
Publisher:	National University of Singapore Press
Abstract:	Between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century the urban world of Angkor died. The two great, apparently unresolvable, key debates about Angkor - the demise of Angkor and the role of the water management system - have persisted for the past 25 years. The Greater Angkor Project is seeking to identify whether these two debates can be parsimoniously restated and causally interlinked. The aim is to redefine how Angkor functioned and to transform the perspective on its demise. The project is examining a radical alternative to the usual explanations by seeking to find out whether the interaction between the massive, material structure of the city itself and the consequences of habitual farming practices created circumstances which would have made Angkor unusable and led to its demise. The proposed explanations do not demand new and external triggers or mechanisms, only outcomes that were consequent on the continuation of habitual activities.
Date Created:	10/10/2006
Editors:	Bacus, Elisabeth A. Glover, Ian C. Pigott, Vincent C.
Page Start:	347
Page End:	354