By Im Sothearith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
A decades-long drought interspersed with intense monsoons in the 14th and 15th centuries may have contributed to the fall of the Angkorean civilization, a new US research study suggests.
Brendan Buckley, a researcher at Columbia University, and his colleagues studied tree rings in the region, putting together a high-resolution record of periods of drought and moisture, and while it is not clear what exact role climate played in the fall of the empire, Buckley told VOA Khmer climate certainly played a part.
“We wanted to be careful not to make it sound like we were saying correlation equals causation,” Buckley said. “I mean there is plenty of evidence in our record, or in other records, where you know that drought doesn’t always lead to collapse, but what it does do if you have sustained drought is it certainly puts a stresser on societies when other factors are stressing them.”
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