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Réf.

41808

Type

conference item

Titre

Land-use and change in Khmer settlements: cultural environment and the "salt road"

Langues

English

Auteurs

Sutthitham, Thada

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

6 p.

Titre de conférence

15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’

Lieu de conférence

Xi'an, China

Date de conférence

17 – 21 oct 2005

Mots-clés

setting / historic villages / environment / cultural routes / conservation of historic sites / land use plans / salt industry / trade routes

Pays mentionnés

Cambodia / Lao People's Democratic Republic / Thailand

Monuments et sites

Khmer sites

Résumé en anglais

Spiritual and geographical consideration giving birth to Southeast Asian settlements was studied. The incremental and decisive changes from modern development in the 20th century have altered historical plans obviously. Among Southeast Asian cultures, Khmer civilization was the most glorious and occupied almost Southeast Asian continent during the 5th-13th centuries. Road network extended from Cambodia to Thailand and Lao. Satellite imageries and aerial photographs along with field surveys were used to identify land uses and changes to Khmer settlements. The main road approximately 230 kilometers, linking Angkor to Phimai was indicated and named “salt road”. Phimai was the upland and ancient salt manufacturing center. Settlements along the roads were cities with stone and brick monuments and pottery manufacturing sites (produced for liquor and fermented fish). Geometrical city plans and their cultural landscapes with unique water management system were revealed. These cultural environment and landscapes have not either been preserved along with monuments or conserved in their significant cultural corridor context. As the result, an ECP (Eco-Cultural Planning) approach is also proposed for the conservation of monuments along with their cultural environment and landscapes under the sustainable development paradigm.

Document joint

4-39.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)