Radiocarbon dates from jar and coffin burials of the Cardamom mountains reveal a unique mortuary ritual in Cambodia's late- to post-Angkor period (15th-17th centuries AD)

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-22

  Beavan, Nancy ^a   Halcrow, Sian ^a   Mcfadgen, Bruce ^b   Hamilton, Derek ^c   Buckley, Brendan ^d   Sokha, Tep ^e   Shewan, Louise ^f   Sokha, Ouk ^g   Fallon, Stewart ^h   Miksic, John ⁱ   Armstrong, Richard ^h   O'Reilly, Dougald ^h   Domett, Kate ^j   Chhem, K R ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^e Royal University of Fine Arts   (Cambodia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts   (Cambodia)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^j JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CERAMICS; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CAMBODIA; CARDAMOM MOUNTAINS;

ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM;

EID: 84860869686     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200046701     Document Type: Article

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