Paper short abstract:

The typological and archaeometrical results obtained on the brown-glazed stoneware of the Torp Chey kiln sites area will be presented. The analyses of stoneware from consumption sites give some ideas on the distribution of these kiln sites.

Paper long abstract:

Part of the Cerangkor project has concerned the brown-glazed stoneware from the area of Torp Chey. Several kiln sites have been prospected : Torp Chey, Veal Svay, Chong Samrong, Teuk Leck.

More than seventy samples of brown-glazed stoneware from the different kiln sites have been analysed chemically by XRF-WDS and twenty-five also petrographically. The typological and archaeometrical results obtained for the stoneware produced at each workshop are to be presented. The data indicate that the different kiln sites use similar raw materials suggesting the exploitation of the same geological formations for the whole area. Only one reference group has been therefore established, well distinguished from the other angkorian kiln sites.

Furthermore, the analyses of brown-glazed stoneware from consumption sites give some ideas on the distribution of these kiln sites.