Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: A dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat

Antiquity

Volumn 80, Issue 309, 2006, Pages 599-614

  Penny, Dan ^a   Pottier, Christophe ^b   Fletcher, Roland ^a   Barbetti, Mike ^a   Fink, David ^c   Hua, Quan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Seoul Center   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Angkor; Borassus; Cambodia; Palynology; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; LAND USE; MEDIEVAL; PALYNOLOGY; VEGETATION;

ANGKOR; ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

BORASSUS;

EID: 33749426506     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094060     Document Type: Article

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