ANTH 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Yasovarman I, Boeing Yal-1, Angkor Thom
Document Summary
Remote sensing: access to remote sensing imagery greatly changed angkorian studies, air photographs. Recent acquisition (finnmap 1992: satellite imagery. Source: instrument pulse, needs power to operate. Source: surface emission, cosmic background, rain emission: geographic information systems enable spatial display, mapping and analysis of vector (lines/points) and raster (images) Regional maps provided first view of angkor in the landscape. French colonial mapping expeditions: foundation of efeo led to formalized mapping of angkor park, emphasis on mapping elite construction s covering 400km^2. Combined 1992 air photographs and ground surveys. Settlement mounds associated with all 3 of the above. Identified the first evidence of the populated areas within angkor. Identified distribution of temples, trapean, linear features (canals/dikes: people lived along embankments and on top of mounds near tanks and temples (discovered via ceramics/pottery) What are the major problems that gaucher sees in trying to identify the city: there is no city wall (medieval cities usually have walls)
