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Welcome to the web site of the Greater Angkor Project (GAP), an international, multidisciplinary research programme interested in the decline of urbanism at Angkor, in Cambodia. Specifically, the project is investigating the relationship between the vast extent of Angkor in the 12th to 16th centuries AD, land clearance for rice production and regional ecological damage both then and now. The study has implications for the past and the future health of the regional ecosystem, sustainable development and the management of Angkor as a national and an international cultural resource.
The Greater Angkor Project, working with a number of colleagues from around the world, is pleased to announce the publication of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If you have any questions regarding the article please contact Professor Roland Fletcher or Dr Daniel Penny. The Greater Angkor Project has recently been awarded a further five years funding from the Australian Research Council (DP1092663). Over the coming months with website will be updated with new content to reflect the objectives and aims of the new research project.
Project Summary
Angkor, the vast low-density Khmer capital founded in the 9th century CE, was abandoned some time in the past 500 years. The processes, rate and period of its demise are still unknown. The project will identify (i) the ancestry of Angkor’s social and spatial organisation in the first millennium BCE, (ii) the way the urban complex operated to diagnose (iii) why, when and how it was abandoned and reveal the transformations from the 16th to 19th centuries that created the modern landscape out of 3000 years of cultural continuity.
This web site provides a general overview of the project’s objectives and outcomes in addition to providing a resource for students and professionals involved in the project. If the information you need is not available here, or if you would like further information, please email us at .
Important: GAP project members should email the webmaster on the email below to obtain a username and password in order to view special-access sections of this site. If you have a username and password, log in using the panel on the left hand side of every page.
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Written by Administrator on Friday, 24 June 2005. Last Updated by Martin King on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 |
