Were they applying the Indian Treatise of Urbanization when Indianization covered Ancient Cambodia?
This paper will demonstrate an approach of a study on the structure of villages, where are known as prehistoric sites by scholars for years, situated within Angkor area. These villages classified as circular mound moat by their pattern. Based on research work done by Professor Bruno Dagens on the Indian Treatise Mayamata (Dagens 1970) and the research of Professor Jacques Gaucher on Angkor Thom (Gaucher 2005), we examined the structure of ancient villages in the Angkor area. The findings show continuing occupation on sites from the early in Cambodian history to the present. Villages are spatially concentrated around a central point represented by wooden posts. Two main roads, East-West and North-South, crossed each other at the central point thus dividing the village into four quadrants. The paper will examine the origin of this concept of spatial organization. A3 Imamura, Keiji Department of Archaeology, University of Tokyo PITFALL HUNTING IN THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC AND JOMON PERIODS I
