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Ref ID: 29429
Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: Fletcher, Roland
Penny, Dan
Evans, Damian
Pottier, Christophe
Barbetti, Mike
Kummu, Matti
Lustig, Terry
The Apsara Directorate
Title: The water management network of Angkor, Cambodia
Date: 2008
Source: Antiquity
Abstract: Meticulous survey of the banks, channels and reservoirs at Angkor shows them to have been part of a large scale water management network instigated in the ninth century AD. Water collected from the hills was stored and could have been distributed for a wide variety of purposes including flood control, agriculture and ritual while a system of overflows and bypasses carried surplus water away to the lake, the Tonle Sap, to the south. The network had a history of numerous additions and modifications. Earlier channels both distributed and disposed of water. From the twelfth century onwards the large new channels primarily disposed of water to the lake. The authors here present and document the latest definitive map of the water network of Angkor.
Date Created: 10/22/2008
Volume: 82
Number: 317
Page Start: 658
Page End: 670