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Lidar and maps reveal population of ancient Angkor

Archaeologists report that 700,000-900,000 people lived in Cambodia’s medieval Greater Angkor region. The sprawling tropical city, which covered 3,000 square kilometers (1,158 square miles), thrived from the 9th to the 15th centuries before being abandoned, possibly due to climate change. The paper, which combines more than 30 years of data with recent airborne lidar sensing, appears in the journal Knowing the population and how it was distributed is vital for potentially helping cities now under climate pressures, says coauthor Roland Fletcher of the University of Sydney and head of the Angkor Research Program. “We predominantly are living in giant, low-density cities around the world that are similar to Angkor, which displayed serious vulnerability to severe climate change,” Fletcher says. “We really need to know the mechanics of how Angkor worked and what people were doing to get some idea of how referable those experiences are to the risks that we face in our future.

Archaeologists pinpoint population for the Greater Angkor region

 E-Mail IMAGE: A pair of contemporary Cambodian houses: The house in the background is made from wood and modern materials. The house in the foreground was built traditionally from organic materials such. view more  Credit: Photo by Alison Carter EUGENE, Ore. May 7, 2021 Long-running archaeological research, boosted by airborne lidar sensing and machine-learning algorithms, finds that Cambodia s Greater Angkor region was home to 700,000-900,000 people. The sprawling city, which thrived from the 9th to 15th centuries, has slowly revealed its forest-hidden past to archaeologists, but its total population has been a mystery. The new estimate, made possible by a study designed at the University of Oregon, is the first for the entire 3,000-square-kilometer mix of urban and rural landscape. The findings published May 7 in the journal

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