Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: a dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat.(Research)

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Angkor was the location of the capital of the Khmer state for most of the period from the eighth to sometime in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD. By the twelfth century Angkor had become a vast low-density urban complex covering about 1000 sq. km (Fletcher et al. 2003), stretching from the Tonle Sap lake in the south to the Kulen hills in the north. The urban complex incorporated numerous residential loci that were integrated by an immense network of canals and embankments (Figure 1). Within Angkor, successive rulers built major temples and palaces in ...

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