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This chapter provides the archaeobotanical results from five Angkorian sites: Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, and Angkor Thom, located in the Angkorian capital, and the peripheral sites, Tonle Bak and Preah Khan of Kompong Svay. The macroremains present a broad cross-section of plant use in the Angkorian world, particularly on a household level. Rice was the most important crop used as food, in ritual, and for taxation, but the Khmer cultivated and consumed a wide array of plants beyond rice. Households would have tapped into plant resources grown in their gardens as well as imported crops. Many of the plants identified in the archaeobotanical studies are found in today’s tropical gardens of Southeast Asia. There are also differences in the suite of plants found in centres, including regional ones and those identified in craft areas.
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