Iron Scales: Reconstructing the History and Organization of Angkorian Iron Smelting around Phnom Dek, Cambodia (Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries CE)
Author(s): Mitch Hendrickson; Stéphanie Leroy; Enrique Vega; Kaseka Phon
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "The Current State of Archaeological Research across Southeast Asia" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Phnom Dek, or "Iron Mountain," in central Cambodia is the center of the largest iron production region in mainland Southeast Asia. Spanning over 1,400 years of metallurgical activity, the most intensive evidence of smelting across this vast region corresponds with the expansionary phases of the Angkorian Khmer Empire (eleventh to thirteenth centuries). Integrated, multiscalar analysis of objects, the mound, the smelting site, and landscape using GIS and archaeometallurgical approaches provides new insights into the history and social organization of smelting communities, rituals of production, and identity of ironworkers during this dynamic period in Southeast Asia.
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Iron Scales: Reconstructing the History and Organization of Angkorian Iron Smelting around Phnom Dek, Cambodia (Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries CE). Mitch Hendrickson, Stéphanie Leroy, Enrique Vega, Kaseka Phon. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 466694)
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Keywords
General
Archaeometallurgy
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Craft Production
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Digital Archaeology: GIS
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Historic
Geographic Keywords
Asia: Southeast Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 92.549; min lat: -11.351 ; max long: 141.328; max lat: 27.372 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32016