ABSTRACT
This paper introduces a classification of archaeological finds from extensive geophysical surveys at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor, Cambodia, and addresses the challenges to create an online database that serves the research community. The existing offline database was created as part of an interdisciplinary archaeology team investigating the medieval Khmer capital. A combination of close range and remote sensing techniques was deployed on diverse archaeological sites, such as production and habitation areas, temples, their enclosures, and the vast water management system. The various locations were investigated by GPR, and a small number further identified by excavation. All subsurface features were geo-referenced, categorised, and the information stored in a GIS. The results, particularly the ones related to small surveys and surveys of not previously investigated sites, are seldom published, but they still need to be described and made accessible for future research and heritage conservation. Using previously unpublished analysis of the small Angkorian temple site at Doun Kaev as an example, this paper discusses examples of existing databases and the issues regarding a proposed online database for geophysical surveys for Angkor and comparable historic sites.
