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projects (such as a $400-million, 10-year program to triple the area of habitat protected in the Amazon Basin), but also a multitude of small-scale projects on individual species. Lest you think that your small donation is meaningless to such a big organization, consider that a gift of just a few hundred dollars suffices to support a trained park ranger, outfitted with global positioning software, to survey Congo Basin primate populations whose conservation status would otherwise be unknown. Consider also that some environmental organizations are highly leveraged and use private gifts to attract further funds from the World Bank, governments, and aid agencies on a dollar-for-dollar basis. For instance, WWF’s Amazon Basin project is leveraged by a factor of more than 6-to-1, so that your $300 gift actually ends up putting almost $2,000 into the project.

Of course, I mention these numbers for WWF merely because it’s the organization with whose budget I happen to be most familiar, and not in order to recommend it over many other equally worthy environmental organizations with different goals. Such examples of how efforts by individuals make a difference can be multiplied indefinitely.

Afterword

Two recent books summarizing Angkor are: Charles Higham, The Civilization of Angkor (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001) and Michael Coe, Angkor and the Khmer Civilization (London: Thames and Hudson, 2003).

Subsequent to the publication of those books, the Australian/French/Cambodian Angkor project obtained many important results. Recent papers describing those results include: Dan Penny et al., “Hydrological history of the West Baray, Angkor, revealed through palynological analysis of sediments from the West Mebon” (Bulletin de l’École Française d’Éxtrême-Orient 92:497-521 (2005)); Christophe Pottier, “Nouvelles recherches sur l’aménagement du territoire angkorien à travers l’histoire” (Comptes-rendus des Séances, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 147:427-449 (2007)); Damian Evans et al., “A comprehensive archaeological map of the world’s largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:14277-14282 (2007)); Roland Fletcher et al., “The water management network of Angkor, Cambodia” (Antiquity 82:658-670 (2008)); Matti Kummu, “Water management in Angkor: human impacts on hydrology and sediment transportation” (Journal of Environmental Management 20:1413-1421 (2009)); and Brendan Buckley et al., “Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107:6748-6752 (2010)).

Two recent translations are available for the eye-witness account of Angkor in A.D. 1295-1296 by the Chinese visitor Zhou Daguan. They are: Zhou Daguan, The Customs of Cambodia, ed. J. Gilman D’Arcy Paul, 3rd ed. (Bangkok: The Siam Society, 1993); and Zhou Daguan, A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People, ed. Peter Harris (Chiang Mai: Selkivorin Books, 2007).

INDEX

Aboriginal Australians

Adenauer, Konrad

Africa, slaves from

age of exploration

agriculture:

and climate

composting

crop rotation

and deforestation

and drought

economics of

fallow land in

flexible cropping

and food shortages

and greenhouse gases

irrigation for, see irrigation

lithic mulches

and Malthusian problems

and population growth

and salinization

and soil, see soil

in stratified societies

swidden (slash-and-burn)

and weeds

see also specific locations

Ainu people

air quality

Akkadian Empire

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Alcoa

Aloysius (pseud.)

Amundsen, Roald

Anaconda Copper Mining Company

Anasazi

agriculture of

architecture of

cannibalism of

Chaco Canyon site

complex society of

disappearing culture of

Kayenta people

map

merged into other societies

Mesa Verde site

packrat midden study of

population of

regional supply network of

survival of

water management by

Anatolia

André, Catherine

Angkor, rise and fall of

Angkor Wat

Antei, Miyazaki

Anuta Island

Apollo Gold mine

aquaculture

aquifers