Some Evidence of an Inter-relationship between Hydraulic Features and Rice Field Patterns at Angkor during Ancient Times (The Hydraulic City in Asia : The Huge Monuments in terms of the Relationship between Agriculture and Water)
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This presentation today will tackle some questions relating to the ponds, reservoirs and hydraulic features located in the Angkor region and their possible relation to land use and territory planning during the ancient Khmer period. The subject is too wide to detail here and numerous interrogations should anyway be left unsolved for a lack of reliable data. I will only raise some significant points that could provide not definitive answers, but only elements of answers and possible orientations for further research and investigations. I would also like to specify as a preamble that the following observations are based on my own research into Angkorean territorial planning, especially on the study and intensive exploration of the south area of Angkor-between the two main barays and down to the Tonle Sap lake. This was realised from 1993 to 1999 as part of an EFEO program and has been submitted as a Ph. D. thesis at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Its main subject did not focus on the Cite Hydraulique problem, but this debate being obviously closely related with territorial management in Angkor, I could not just give this problem a miss, especially in relation to the large barays. It brought me to deal with matters related to B. P. Groslier's thesis of the Cite Hydraulique, and to re-evaluate existing and contradictory opinions on this thesis. Therefore today, I will present some elements related to this re-appraisal of the Hydraulic City debate, first by pointing out some doubtful arguments raised against the hydraulic thesis, then by producing an overview of some new or previously unpublished data. This data could modify appreciably our understanding of the ancient hydraulic features. Among them are some elements which provide evidence of an inter-relation between hydraulic features and rice field patterns at Angkor during ancient times, suggesting that they were parts of the same general system.
- 上智大学の論文
- 2000-12-27
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