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The Social and Ecological Trajectory of Prehistoric Cambodian Earthworks
- Asian Perspectives
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 52, Number 2, Fall 2013
- pp. 327-346
- 10.1353/asi.2013.0008
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This article moves discussion of prehistoric earthworks in Cambodia from normative archaeology into an ecological landscape structure, based on archaeological data sets. Discussions provide a synthesis of archaeological and newly borne-out ecological explanations for original site construction, occupation, landscape use, sustainability of occupation for the earthwork culture over a 2000-year period and terminal use of the sites. A model is presented to assess site abandonment and post-earthwork region settlement patterns.