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Carter, Alison Kyra
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Alison Carter is an anthropological archaeologist with an interest in the political economy and evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia. She is currently Principal Investigator and Co-Director of P'teah Cambodia (ProjecT Excavating Ancient Households), a project investigating Pre-Angkorian, Angkorian, and Post-Angkorian residential spaces in Battambang Province. Other research interests include the archaeology of East and South Asia, materials analysis and LA‐ICP‐MS, craft technology and specialization, ritual and religion, trade and exchange, and bead studies.
Recent Submissions
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Diachronic modeling of the population within the medieval Greater Angkor Region settlement complex (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021-05-07)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 ...
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(Open Journal Systems, 2015-01-02)This special issue of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association presents some of the results of a small conference entitled “Recent Advances in the Archaeology of East and Southeast Asia.” The event was held in ...
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Building from the Ground Up: The Archaeology of Residential Spaces and Communities in Southeast Asia (Springer, 2022-01-27)Despite the ethnographic importance of the Southeast Asian house and household, an explicitly Southeast Asian “household archaeology” is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, archaeologists in Southeast Asia have undertaken ...
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(Society of Bead Researchers, 2016-10)Over several years working in a bead store, and more recently studying ancient beads from Southeast Asia, I frequently saw beads that had circular or half-moon-shaped marks on their surface (Figure 1). Most of the beads ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-09)The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent studies have suggested that both local ...
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(University of Hawai'i Press, 2021)Angkor Borei, Cambodia was an important urban center related to the early first millennium C.E. polity known as Funan. Excavations in the protohistoric period Vat Komnou Cemetery site uncovered over 1300 glass and stone ...
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(Proceedings of the Eurpoean Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 2008-01)Agate was one of the ancient world’s premier prestige goods, especially the red-orange variety known as carnelian. The stone was utilized by and traded between societies from Africa to eastern Asia (Inizan 1993; ...
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(UCL Press, 2010)The prehistoric moat-mound site of Ban Non Wat (BNW) is located on the Khorat Plateau in Northeast Thailand (figure 1). Initially identified due to its Iron Age moats, BNW has provided a wealth of information about changing ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2018-09-01)The Khmer Empire (9th–15th centuries a.d.), centered on the Greater Angkor region, was the most extensive political entity in the history of mainland Southeast Asia. Stone temples constructed by Angkorian kings and elites ...
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(National Academy of Sciences, 2019-06-03)The 9th–15th century Angkorian state was Southeast Asia’s greatest premodern empire and Angkor Wat in the World Heritage site of Angkor is one of its largest religious monuments. Here we use excavation and chronometric ...
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(2011)Glass and stone beads found at Iron Age period sites (500 BC – AD 500) in Southeast Asia are amongst the first signs for sustained trade and sociopolitical contact with South Asia. Because of this, they have become important ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2015-12-07)Considerable attention has been devoted to the architecture and art history of Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple in the last century. There has, however, been little research on the functions and internal organisation of the ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2015-10-15)Control over the exchange of prestige goods is an important component of emerging socio-political complexity in many ancient societies. During the Iron Age period (500 BCE–CE 500), communities in mainland Southeast Asia ...