Origins of the Civilization of Angkor

<i>The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor </i>reflects the results of a research programme conducted by Charles Higham over the last twenty years highlighting much entirely new and occasionally surprising information and providing a distinct perspective on cultural change over two millennia. The book covers the background of environmental change the adoption of rice farming archaeogenetics the adoption of copper-based metallurgy the iron age and the origins of state formation.