My note on Fernand Braudel’s suggestion that Siamese attacks of the Angkor Wat disrupted production of the rice-fields, thereby releasing the destructive force of malaria, causing its eventual abandonment.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Dr Sergey Lapteff, a Russian archaeologist working in Japan and Indochina, specializing in Cambodia. [...]
Destruction by Malaria
June 26th, 2007 · Comments Off
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