Smelting in the Shadow of the Iron Mountain: Preliminary Field Investigation of the Industrial Landscape around Phnom Dek, Cambodia (Ninth to Twentieth Centuries A. D.).

The high-grade mineral ores of the Phnom Dek region in central Cambodia have long been suspected of playing a major role in the rise of Angkor, the largest medieval polity in mainland Southeast Asia. This article presents the first comprehensive study by the Industries of Angkor Project (INDAP) to d...

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Publicado en:Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archeology for Asia & the Pacific Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 55 - 92
Autores principales: HENDRICKSON, Mitch, LEROY, Stéphanie, Quan HUA, Kaseka, PHON, Vuthy, VOEUN
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Publicado: University of Hawai'i 2017
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          Assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago
          Researcher at LAPA-IRAMAT, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay France
          Principal research scientist at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO)
          Director of the Archaeology Department at the Institute of Culture and Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Cambodia
          Head of the Department of Archaeology at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in Cambodia
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        Iron smelting
        Heterogeneity
        Metallurgy in archaeology
        Industrial sites
        Angkor (Extinct city)
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        ethnic minorities
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        iron metallurgy
        mainland Southeast Asia
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