Angkor is one of the world’s largest premodern settlement complexes (9th to 15th centuries CE), but to date, no comprehensive demographic study has been completed, and key aspects of its population and demographic history remain unknown. Here, we combine lidar, archaeological excavation data, radiocarbon dates, and machine learning algorithms to create maps that model the development of the city and its population growth through time. We conclude that the Greater Angkor Region was home to approximately 700,000 to 900,000 inhabitants at its apogee in the 13th century CE. This granular, diachronic, paleodemographic model of the Angkor complex can be applied to any ancient civilization.

Radiocarbon dates from recent excavations of a range of Angkorian Khmer (~9th–14th CE) stoneware kiln complexes provide a new and independent perspective on the timing and geography of Khmer ceramic production. These data demonstrate a clear two-phase sequence. The first, in the late 9th to late 12th centuries CE, marks a period of intensive production located both to the east of Angkor and to the south at Cheung Ek, south of Phnom Penh. A second shorter phase of production occurred in the late 13th to late 14th CE at more distant provincial settings following the collapse of the Angkorian state.

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e article presents a project of an archaeological assessment of the very signi cant archaeological site of Zecovi. It is based on multidisciplinary methodological research of the Zecovi and its surroundings. e aim of the research was to determine how the human factor in uenced the changes of the existing natural landscape the way how adjusted itself to this landscape. Project implementation was focused primarily to the centre of the site which has a speci c shape (oppidum, tell, hill-top) and secondary focus was on the immediate and remote surrounding in order to acquire more realistic picture about the landscape in di erent archaeological periods from prehistory to modern time.