Kings of the World: the Dynamics of Khmer Centralization 900-1500 CE

以吴哥为基地的高棉尺子(公元9世纪至15世纪)竞相控制东南亚大陆前现代农业政体中最大、生存时间最长的政体之一。吴哥以其城市核心周围的纪念碑、水利工程和交通系统而闻名，但吴哥精英对更广泛的高棉领土施加的政治和经济控制仍然鲜为人知。通过一个高棉石器和窑炉的起源和年代测定计划(根据涉及的地缘政治问题进行规模调整)，该项目将对更广泛的核心-腹地关系进行第一次严格的空间和时间控制重建。

Khmer rulers based at Angkor (9th to 15th century CE) competed to control one of the largest and longest-lived of the pre modern agrarian polities of mainland Southeast Asia. Best known for the monuments, hydraulic works and transportation systems around its urban core, the political and economic control Angkorian elite exerted over the broader Khmer territory remains poorly understood. Through a program of provenancing and dating of Khmer stoneware and kilns (scaled to match the geo-political issues involved) this project will produce the first rigorous spatial, chronologically controlled reconstruction of wider core-hinterland relationships.