The Southeast Asian Archaeology lab is located in 256 Condon Hall and is dedicated to studying the archaeology of Southeast Asia, and especially the archaeology of the Angkorian civilization in Cambodia. Research by Dr. Alison Carter focuses on household archaeology, including soil chemistry of anthropogenic house floors as well as the study of stone and glass beads. For more information, please contact Dr. Alison Carter at acarter4@uoregon.edu.
News
- The new edited volume, The Angkorian World, has just been published! This volume was edited by Miriam Stark, with Mitch Hendrickson and Damian Evans and is filled with cutting edge research on Angkor. Alison, Miriam (with Piphal Heng and Rachna Chhay) have a chapter on “The Angkorian House.”
- Tiyas Bhattacharyya successfully defended her PhD Prospectus in April 2023 and is now a PhD candidate! She will be studying faunal remains from the site of Angkor Borei, Cambodia.
- Several students from Alison Carter’s ANTH 410: Researching Anthropological Collections class gave research posters at the 2022 Society for American Meeting in Portland in March-April 2023.
- Alison Carter did a photo essay for the University of Oregon’s Vice President for Research and Innovation website on fieldwork in Angkor and Battambang.
- Alison Carter gave a talk about our ongoing research at Baset for the Center for Khmer Studies
- Alison Carter gave a talk on “Looking beyond the temples” a about the people of Angkor for the Utah Museum of Natural History
- Alison Carter and Miriam Stark were profiled by journalist Michelle Vachon on their current research in Battambang, Cambodia.
- Alison Carter appears in the new IMAX movie “Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia” as part of the Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia exhibit. The exhibit will be traveling around North America for the next several years.
- Alison Carter (with co-PI Miriam Stark) was awarded an NSF grant to continue research at Prasat Baset in Battambang province. Fieldwork was undertaken from May-July 2022 with more work planned for 2023 and 2024!
- Kelby Beyer won the 2022 Asian Studies Award for her poster “Contextualizing a Collection of Rare Cambodian Glass Ornaments Within Contemporaneous Trade Networks.”
- May 2021: New publication! “Angkor Borei and Protohistoric Trade Networks: A View from the Glass and Stone Bead Assemblage” in Asian Perspectives.
- May 2021: New publication! “Diachronic modeling of the population within the medieval Greater Angkor Region settlement complex” in Science Advances.
- A piece in The Conversation on this work.
- Alison Carter made an explainer video in Khmer (with English subtitles) about this work.
- September 2020: Dr. Carter and her co-PI, Dr. Miriam Stark, were interviewed by Dr. Rob Dunn in the NC State University Applied Ecology News website about climate change and collapse at Angkor.
- May 2020: Tiyas Bhattacharyya completed her Masters paper on an analysis of Angkorian stoneware ceramics: Her paper is entitled “Angkor From the Outside In: Incorporation into the Angkorian State as Seen Through the Distribution of Stoneware Ceramics”
- July 2019: Angkor Wat archaeological dig yields new clues to its civilization’s decline – an article Dr. Carter wrote for the The Conversation.
- June 2019: Dr. Carter was interviewed for this story (in French) about Angkor in Quebec Science.