|
Ancient Khmer Sites in Eastern Thailand. This book is the first
comprehensive inventory of ancient Khmer sites in eastern Thailand since
the now more than one century-old works of tienne Aymonier, tienne Lunet
de LajonquiŠre, and Major Erik Seidenfaden, describing ninety-six sites in
the provinces of Chanthaburi, Chonburi, Chachoengsao, Prachinburi, and Sra
Kaeo. Museums and temples in the area exhibiting Khmer artifacts. Quarries,
ancient moated sites, and ancient routes are described as well. Location,
era, and orientation are presented together with a short description about
the site, inscriptions, associated water structures such as moats, small
ponds (sra), larger basins (baray), nearby rivers, and geographical
context. The attached CD contains some 3,000 color photographs and
satellite images. The appendices introduce The Indian Circle, an ancient
method of determining the cardinal directions, and reveal the results of
the author's GPS-based field research about archaeo-astronomy in Thailand,
Laos and Cambodia based on some 400 temples.
|