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

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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.