Debunking the Myth: Angkor Was Never a Lost City
Angkor was never lost; it evolved over time, debunking the myth of its rediscovery by Europeans. #southeastasianarchaeology #Cambodia #Angkor #historicaltruth
Tag: collapse and decline of civilisations
Related to the archaeology of civilisational collapse and decline.
The Paregreg War: The Civil Strife that Crumbled Majapahit
via Good News from Indonesia, 18 September 2023: The Paregreg War was a two-year civil war between 1404-1406 in the ...
Historical socioecological transformations in the global tropics as an Anthropocene analogue
via PNAS, 5 October 2021: A paper by Penny and Beach comparing climate-driven 'collapse' of ancient societies in Mesoamerica and ...
[Paper] Deciphering a Timeline of Demise at Medieval Angkor, Cambodia Using Remote Sensing
via Remote Sensing, 27 May 2021: A new paper by Klassen et al. using LiDAR to examine the north bank ...
The Seductive Appeal of Urban Catastrophe
via The Atlantic, 31 January 2021: The author of the article also wrote Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of ...
Lessons from the Climate-Change Induced Collapse of Angkor Wat
via Applied Ecology News, 15 September 2020: Understanding the complexity of the fall of Angkor in conversation with Miriam Stark, ...
How Kings Created Angkor Wat—Then Lost It
via Sapiens, 14 May 2020: Interesting piece about Sarah Klassen and Damian Evans' recent work in Angkor, combining LiDAR, machine ...
Angkor Wat Owes Its Existence to Catastrophe
via The Smithsonian Magazine, 21 February 2020: Feature story based on the recent paper in Georarchaeology about the failed water ...
[Paper] Temple occupation and the tempo of collapse at Angkor Wat, Cambodia
via PNAS, 3 June 2019: A recently-published paper in PNAS examines what happened in Angkor during its period of decline ...
[Paper] Geoarchaeological evidence from Angkor, Cambodia, reveals a gradual decline rather than a catastrophic 15th-century collapse
From PNAS, 25 Feb 2019 with links to news stories below: Analyzing sediment cores from Angkor reveal that the decline ...
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