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Phum Snay is renowned for its numerous burial sites belonging to the later half of the Cambodian Iron Age, which are unfortunately also famous for the extensive and large-scaled looting. Recent excavations performed by a Japanese team revealed that the Phum Snay site could provide us with richer chronological data than ever thought before. The Phum Snay artifact collection includes Snay vases and type-C deep bowls (mostly black ware) which are the typical chronological indicators, in addition to black/brown wares which are pottery types produced with deliberate design. The author describes the condition of the site from looting, salvage archaeology, a recovery campaign, and the Wat Bo Temple's pottery collection, and then discusses how the findings can enable us to create a time frame by analyzing the "set of burial pot-types." This procedure sheds light on the condition of the Phum Snay burial site, the age of the artifacts and a proposal for future regional heritage management. The key idea in this study is the comparison of the vessel catalogues of Phum Snay and those of Professor Dougald O'Reilly's collection with the Wat Bo Temple's collection using the Wat Bo Earthen Ware Ceramics Database (Calthorpe, Wat Bo earthen ware ceramics, 2007). This scheme is a step forward in an attempt at cross-dating between similar burial sites, regardless of their distances from the Phum Snay site.
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