FROM PADDY TO PURA: THE ORIGINS OF ANGKOR (NON-LEAD)

Grant number: DP110101997 | Funding period: 2017 - 2018

Completed

Abstract

This project explores the origin and rise of the state in ancient Southeast Asia. Through the investigation of sites in Cambodia and Thailand and using an array of innovative technologies, the research will contribute to the global investigation of humankind's trajectory toward ever-increasing complexity.

Related publications (16)

THE EXCAVATION OF PHUM SOPHY 2009-2010: AN IRON AGE SITE IN NORTH-WEST CAMBODIA

Dougald O'Reilly, Louise Shewan, Kate Domett, Jennifer Newton, Damian Evans, Voeurn Vuthy, Nancy Beavan

<jats:p>Excavations were undertaken at the village (<em>phum) </em>of Sophy in Banteay Meanchey Province, north-west C..

Isotopic Insights into Mortuary Ritual in the Cardamom Mountains of Cambodia

Louise Shewan, Richard Armstrong, D O'reilly, S Halcrow, N Beavan, T Sokha

2020-12-01

The use of coffins and jars as funerary receptacles was common across Southeast Asia. During the fifteenth to seventeenth centurie..

Baseline bioavailable strontium isotope values for the investigation of residential mobility and resource-acquisition strategies in prehistoric Cambodia

LG Shewan, RA Armstrong, D O'Reilly

2020-08-01

Strontium (Sr) isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) measured in human skeletal material can increase one's understanding of the residential ..

Resource Utilisation and Regional Interaction in Protohistoric Cambodia -- the Evidence from Angkor Borei. Journal:

Louise Shewan

2020-06-01

Angkor Borei is a protohistoric (ca. 500 BCE − 500 CE) site in southern Cambodia (Takeo Province), on the western edge of the Meko..

Innovation or continuation? Development of wet-rice agriculture in Prehistoric Northeast Thailand

Jessica Schalburg-Clayton, Charlotte King, Hallie Buckley, Sian Halcrow, Charles Higham, Louise Shewan, Christina Stantis, Dougald O'Reilly, Kate Domett, Jana Zech, Patrick Roberts

2020-03-01

Revisiting Prei Khmeng: the excavation of an Iron Age settlement and cemetery in Cambodia

Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly, K Domett, A Sopheap

2020-01-01

Prei Khmeng, a village 13 km northwest of Siem Reap, Cambodia, is noted for the presence of one of the region’s earliest monuments..

Environmental and Social Change in Northeast Thailand during the Iron Age

CFW Higham, BFJ Manly, R Thosarat, HR Buckley, N Chang, SE Halcrow, S Ward, DJW O'Reilly, LG Shewan, K Domett

2019-11-01

The Iron Age of Mainland Southeast Asia began in the fifth century bc and lasted for about a millennium. In coastal regions, the d..

A Bioarchaeological Study of Trauma at Late Iron Age to Protohistoric Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand.

L Pedersen, Kate Domett, N Chang, sian Halcrow, H Buckley, D O'Reilly, Louise Shewan

2019-01-01

The Late Iron Age to early historic period site of Non Ban Jak (ca. fourth to eighth centuries a.d.), in the Upper Mun River Valle..

The Impact of Social Change on Health at the Late Iron Age Site of Non Ban Jak in Northeast Thailand

SM Ward, S Halcrow, H Buckley, C Higham, D O'Reilly, L Shewan, K Domett

2018-01-01

Airborne LiDAR prospection at Lovea, an Iron Age moated settlement in central Cambodia

Dougald O'Reilly, Damian Evans, Louise Shewan

2017-08-01

Recent archaeological investigations and technological applications have increased our appreciation of the intricacies of pre-Angk..

Copper-base metallurgy in Late Iron Age Cambodia: Evidence from Lovea

TO Pryce, Dougald O'Reilly, Louise Shewan

2017-06-01

In this paper we present the study of the copper-base assemblage of the Late Iron Age (c. 100–400 BC/AD) moated site of Lovea in n..

Phum Lovea: A moated precursor to the pura of Cambodia? Sociopolitical transformation from Iron Age settlements to early state society

Dougald O'Reilly, Louise Shewan

2016-10-01

The understanding of Angkorian pre-state society has been greatly enhanced by an increase in archaeological investigation in recen..

Prehistoric mortuary traditions in Cambodia

D O’Reilly, L Shewan

2016-01-01

A report on the 2011-2012 excavation of Lovea: An Iron Age, moated settlement in Cambodia

Dougald O'Reilly, Louise Shewan

2015-01-01

Archaeological mounds surrounded by moats and embankments are common in the Mun River valley of the Khorat Plateau in Northeast Th..

Origins of Empire: Cambodia's Prehistoric Past

L Shewan, D O'Reilly

2013-07-01

RADIOCARBON DATES FROM JAR AND COFFIN BURIALS OF THE CARDAMOM MOUNTAINS REVEAL A UNIQUE MORTUARY RITUAL IN CAMBODIA'S LATE- TO POST-ANGKOR PERIOD (15TH-17TH CENTURIES AD)

Nancy Beavan, Sian Halcrow, Bruce McFadgen, Derek Hamilton, Brendan Buckley, Tep Sokha, Louise Shewan, Ouk Sokha, Stewart Fallon, John Miksic, Richard Armstrong, Dougald O'Reilly, Kate Domett, KR Chhem

2012-01-01

We present the first radiocarbon dates from previously unrecorded, secondary burials in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia. The mort..

University of Melbourne Researchers

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