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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Wood Samples from the Angkor Monuments, Cambodia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

E Uchida ,
O Cunin ,
I Shimoda ,
Y Takubo  and
T Nakagawa
E Uchida*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
O Cunin
Affiliation:
Centre for Khmer Studies, PO Box 9380 Wat Damnak, Siem Reap, Cambodia
I Shimoda
Affiliation:
Dept. of Architecture, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
Y Takubo
Affiliation:
Dept. of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
T Nakagawa
Affiliation:
Dept. of Architecture, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
*
Corresponding author. Email: weuchida@waseda.jp
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In the Angkor monuments of Cambodia, pieces of wood remain (as head frames of doorways, crossbeams, ceiling boards, etc.) in the following 8 monuments: Bakong, Lolei, Baksei Chamkrong, North Khleang, Angkor Wat, Banteay Kdei, Bayon, and Gates of Angkor Thorn. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating carried out on 15 wood samples collected from the above 8 monuments revealed that most of the wood samples are original, except for the head frame of a doorway in Baksei Chamkrong, the ceiling boards in the northwest tower, and a crossbeam with pivot hole in the southwest tower of the Inner Gallery of Angkor Wat. The 14C age for the head frame of a doorway in the inner wall under the central tower of North Khleang supports the hypothesis that the inner walls are additions from a later period.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , 2008 , pp. 437 - 445
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Copyright © 2008 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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