Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

The Angkorian Khmer Empire was one of the single largest - and arguably most influential - polities in premodern Mainland Southeast Asia. Based at the capital of Angkor in northern Cambodia, the Khmer imperial project is typically identified through the distribution of dis¬tinctive masonry temples, production of iconic lndic religious statuary, and an extensive corpus of elite-focused inscriptions. Angkor's ability to support these works is typically linked to a vast rice-based economy itself...