Zakład Archeologii Nowego Świata Instytutu Archeologii UJ ma zaszczyt zaprosić na wykład otwarty profesora Rolanda Fletchera pracownika naukowego Uniwersytetu w Sydney i dyrektora Greater Angkor Project pt. „The Unknown Angkor - revealing the giant city".

Abstrakt: Angkor has conventionally been understood as a collection of temples in the jungle. But even in the 1960s Groslier had begun to "see" a suburban landscape bound together by a canal and road network. Only a sustained program of fieldwalking and the use of aerial photographs by Pottier in the 1990s and then radar by the Greater Angkor Project and Evans in the early 21st century remade our view of Angkor. What was revealed was a vast, low-density urban complex covering about a 1000 sq km, the counterpart of the dispersed cities of the Maya in Central America and the great Buddhist cities of northern Sri Lanka. Once urbanism in the agrarian world is redefined as low-density, the same overall pattern to which industrial urbanism is moving, the concept of the city and the trajectory of urbanism is re-made.

Wykład odbędzie się 5 lipca (sobota) o godzinie 18;00 w siedzibie Instytutu Historii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie, ul. Gołębia 13, sala 17 kontakt: 665609507