Over the past thirty years I have developed a global and interdisciplinary perspective in Archaeology, that integrates research, teaching and service. My fields of expertise are the theory and philosophy of archaeology, the study of settlement growth and decline and the analysis of large-scale cultural phenomena over time. In 1995 I published The Limits of Settlement Growth: a theoretical outline - an analysis of the past 15,000 years of settlement-growth and decline - with Cambridge University Press. I have an international reputation as a radical theorist and as the instigator of the Greater Angkor Project, which derives from my theoretical work and is part of a major research program in Cambodia.

Teaching and supervision

As well as teaching across a wide spectrum of archaeology, I have initiated new teaching programs in the Archaeology of Asia and have taught a generation of diverse, innovative professional archaeologists. My combination of teaching and research has created a multi-disciplinary research team of local and international research students and staff, linking the Humanities and the Sciences.

Current projects

This program of research on Angkor has developed international collaborations for the University and has enhanced its public profile through media presentations, such as the National Geographic International TV program 'Lost City'. The Angkor research team also serves the intentional community through the applied research of the Living with Heritage Project at Angkor, in collaboration with the Cambodian government and UNESCO.

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Greek Settlement Development from the Early Bronze Age to the Classical Period (3500-323 B.C.E.)	Amanda MCMANIS

Selected publications

Anomalous Giants

(2023)

The Limits of Settlement Growth: A theoretical outline

(Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Publications

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Books

Fletcher, R. (2007). The Limits of Settlement Growth: A theoretical outline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters

Evans, D., Polkinghorne, M., Fletcher, R., Brotherson, D., Hall, T., Klassen, S., Wijker, P. (2023). Perspectives on the 'Collapse' of Angkor and the Khmer Empire: A Critical Review. In Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World, (pp. 541-553). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Hendrickson, M., Stark, M., Evans, D., Fletcher, R. (2023). Prologue: An Introduction to the Angkorian World. In Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World, (pp. 1-14). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Evans, D., Fletcher, R., Klassen, S., Pottier, C., Wijker, P. (2023). Trajectories of Urbanism in the Angkorian World. In Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World, (pp. 173-194). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Pottier, C. (2022). ANGKOR: A Provisional Map History of Greater Angkor from Ancestry to Transformation. In Charles F. W. Higham, Nam C. Kim (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia, (pp. 703-731). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Fletcher, R. (2021). Sprawl At Risk: Lessons from Angkor, Tikal and Anuradhapura. In JW Vasbinder (Eds.), Disrupted Balance: Society at Risk, (pp. 89-91). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2018). Angkor, food production, water management and climate change: The trajectory of urbanism in SE Asia to the mid-second millennium CE. In Federica Sulas, Innocent Pikirayi (Eds.), Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival, (pp. 238-258). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2018). The Logic of Cultural Evolution. In Shuzhen Sim and Benjamin Seet (Eds.), Sydney Brenner's 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution. Singapore: Wildtype Books.
Fletcher, R., White, K. (2018). Tropical environments and trajectories to low-density settlement forms. In Nuria Sanz (Eds.), Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Forest Conservation. Integrating natural and cultural diversity for sustainability: A global perspective, (pp. 92-115). Mexico City: UNESCO.
Fletcher, R., Buckley, B., Pottier, C., Wang, S. (2017). The case of Angkor and Monsoon Extremes in Mainland Southeast Asia. In Harvey Weiss (Eds.), Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2016). The Trantor-Coruscant Conundrum: Deep Time, Imagined Interstellar Urbanism and the SETI Debate. In Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke (Eds.), That Was Then, This Is Now : Contemporary Archaeology and Material Cultures in Australia, (pp. 118-133). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Fletcher, R. (2012). Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism: scale, power, and ecology. In Michael E Smith (Eds.), The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, (pp. 285-320). New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Evans, D. (2012). The dynamics of Angkor and its landscape. In Alexandra Haendel (Eds.), Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia, (pp. 42-62). Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.
Fletcher, R. (2010). Urban Materialities: Meaning, Magnitude, Friction, and Outcomes. In Dan Hicks and Mary C Beaudry (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, (pp. 459-483). New York, USA: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
Lustig, T., Fletcher, R., Kummu, M., Pottier, C., Penny, D. (2008). Did Traditional Cultures Live in Harmony with Nature? Lessons from Angkor, Cambodia. In Matti Kummu, Marko Keskinen, Olli Varis (Eds.), Modern myths of the Mekong: a critical review of water and development concepts, principles and policies, (pp. 81-94). Helsinki: Water & Development Publications - Helsinki University of Technology.
Fletcher, R., Penny, D., Barbetti, M., Pottier, C., Than, H., Chan, K., Somaneath, T. (2006). The Greater Angkor Project 2005-2009: Issues and Program. In Elisabeth A Bacus, Ian C Glover and Vincent C Piggot (Eds.), Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, (pp. 347-354). Singapore: National University of Singapore.
Fletcher, R. (2002). The hammering of society: non-correspondence and modernity. In John Schofield, William Gray Johnson and Colleen M. Beck (Eds.), Materiel culture : the archaeology of twentieth-century conflict, (pp. 303-311). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

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Journals

Pham, V., Fletcher, R. (2024). Negative Space: An Alternative Framework for Archaeoacoustics. Journal of Cognition, 7(1). [More Information]
Fletcher, R., White, K., Penny, D. (2024). Risk and Low-Density Dispersed Urbanism. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6, 1347157. [More Information]
White, K., Fletcher, R. (2023). Anomalous Giants: Form, Operation, Differences and Outcomes. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 7, 275-311. [More Information]
Leung, L., Carter, E., Fletcher, R. (2022). Potential of organic residues on Chinese export porcelain from Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Hawken, S. (2021). A long-term archaeological reappraisal of low-density urbanism: Implications for contemporary cities. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 3, 29-50. [More Information]
Brotherson, D., Fletcher, R., Klassen, S., Attorre, T., Chhay, R., Johnson, W., Moffat, I. (2021). Deciphering a Timeline of Demise at Medieval Angkor, Cambodia Using Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 13(2094), 1-14. [More Information]
Klassen, S., Carter, A., Evans, D., Ortman, S., Stark, M., Loyless, A., Polkinghorne, M., Heng, P., Hill, M., Wijker, P., Fletcher, R., et al (2021). Diachronic modeling of the population within the medieval Greater Angkor Region settlement complex. Science Advances, 7(19), 1-10. [More Information]
Thuy, V., Fletcher, R., Liou, Y. (2021). Extensive, low-density Vietnamese urban settlements - 10th to 19th century CE: redefining ancestry and organization in a Southeast Asian urban tradition. World Archaeology, 53(2), 345-368. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2020). An opinion on issues for future investigation of the water management of Greater Angkor. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 7(5), 1-9. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2020). Nouvelles hypotheses sur le declin d'Angkor. L'Histoire, (470), 2-3.
Robinson, M., Porter, A., Figueira, W., Fletcher, R. (2019). Neolithic Temples of Malta: 3D analysis points to novel roof reconstruction. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 13, 1-10. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2019). Trajectories to Low-Density Settlements Past and Present: Paradox and Outcome. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 6, 1-21. [More Information]
Penny, D., Zachreson, C., Fletcher, R., Lau, D., Lizier, J., Fischer, N., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Prokopenko, M. (2018). The demise of Angkor: Systemic vulnerability of urban infrastructure to climatic variations. Science Advances, 4(10), 1-8. [More Information]
Feneley, M., Penny, D., Fletcher, R. (2016). Claiming the hydraulic network of Angkor with Visnu: A multidisciplinary approach including the analysis of archaeological remains, digital modelling and radiocarbon dating: With evidence for a 12th century renovation of the West Mebon. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 9, 275-292. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Rachna, C. (2015). Angkor Wat: an introduction. Antiquity, 89(348), 1388-1401. [More Information]
Lucero, L., Fletcher, R., Coningham, R. (2015). From 'collapse' to urban diaspora: the transformation of low-density, dispersed agrarian urbanism. Antiquity, 89(347), 1139-1154. [More Information]
Sonnemann, T., O'Reilly, D., Rachna, C., Fletcher, R., Pottier, C. (2015). The buried "towers" of Angkor Wat. Antiquity, 89(348), 1420-1438. [More Information]
Evans, D., Fletcher, R. (2015). The landscape of Angkor Wat redefined. Antiquity, 89(348), 1402-1419. [More Information]
Buckley, B., Fletcher, R., Wang, S., Zottoli, B., Pottier, C. (2014). Monsoon extremes and society over the past millennium on mainland Southeast Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 1-19. [More Information]
Evans, D., Fletcher, R., Tan, B. (2013). 2012 LiDAR survey over Angkor, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker. World Heritage, 68, 62-65.
Evans, D., Fletcher, R., Pottier, C., Chevance, J., Soutif, D., Boun, S., Sokrithy, I., Darith, E., Tina, T., Samnang, K., et al (2013). Uncovering archaeological landscapes at Angkor using lidar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(31), 12595-12600. [More Information]
Buckley, B., Anchukaitis, K., Penny, D., Fletcher, R., Cook, E., Masaki, S., Nam, L., Wichienkeeo, A., Minh, T., Truong, M. (2010). Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(15), 6748-6752. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2010). Shining Stars and Black Holes: Urbanism, Comparison, and Comparability. Journal of Urban History, 36(2), 251-256. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2009). Low-Density, Agrarian-Based Urbanism: A Comparative View. Insights, 2(4), 2-19.
Fletcher, R., Pottier, C., Evans, D., Kummu, M. (2008). The Development of the Water Management System of Angkor: A Provisional Model. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 28, 57-66.
Fletcher, R., Penny, D., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Barbetti, M., Kummu, M., Lustig, T., Authority for the Protection and Mgt of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap, A. (2008). The water management network of Angkor, Cambodia. Antiquity, 82(2008), 658-670. [More Information]
Evans, D., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Hensley, S., Tapley, I., Milne, A., Barbetti, M. (2007). A comprehensive archaeological map of the world's largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(36), 14277-14282. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Johnson, I., Bruce, E., Khuon, K. (2007). Living with heritage: Site monitoring and heritage values in Greater Angkor and the Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia. World Archaeology, 39(3), 385-405. [More Information]
Dan, P., Hua, Q., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M. (2007). The use of AMS C-14 dating to explore issues of occupation and demise at the medieval city of Angkor, Cambodia. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 259(1), 388-394. [More Information]
Penny, D., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M., Fink, D., Hua, Q. (2006). Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: a dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat. Antiquity, 80(3), 599-614. [More Information]
Penny, D., Pottier, C., Kummu, M., Fletcher, R., Zoppi, U., Barbetti, M., Somaneath, T. (2005). Hydrological history of the West Baray, Angkor, revealed through palynological analysis of sediments from the West Mebon. Bulletin de l'ecole Francaise d'extreme-Orient, 92(3), 497-521.
Fletcher, R., Evans, D., Tapley, I., Milne, A. (2004). Angkor: Extent, Settlement Pattern And Ecology. Preliminary Results Of An Airsar Survey In September 2000. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin, 24, 130-138.
Zoppi, U., Barbetti, M., Fletcher, R., Hua, Q., Chhem, R., Pottier, C., Watanasak,, M. (2004). The Contribution Of C-14 Ams Dating To The Greater Angkor Archaeological Project. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 223-24, 681-685. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2003). Angkor. Great Temples - Vast City. Lotus Leaves, 11, 4-7.
Fletcher, R. (2003). Barbed Wire was an Invention to Control American Cows: What is Required in a Neo-Darwinian Theory of Cultural Behaviour? Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 13(2), 288-293.
Polkinghorne, M., Fletcher, R. (2003). Bounded space: the continuous galleries at Angkor. TAASA Review, 12(2), 6-7.
Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M., Evans, D., Than, H., Sokrithy, I., Chan, D., Penny, D., Pottier, C., Somaneath, T. (2003). Redefining Angkor: Structure and environment in the largest, low density urban complex of the pre-industrial world. Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies, 4, 107-121.
Fletcher, R., Pottier, C. (2002). AIRSAR radar image insert of central Angkor. Museum International (English Edition), 54, one page insert.
Fletcher, R., Christian, P. (2002). The Gossamer City: a new inquiry. Museum International (English Edition), 54, 23-27.
Fletcher, R. (2001). Seeing Angkor â€“ new views on an old city. JOSA: The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 32(33), 1-25.

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Edited Journals

Fletcher, R., Kim, N., White, K. (2023). Anomalous Giants. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 7. [More Information]

Conferences

Evans, D., Hanus, K., Fletcher, R. (2015). The story beneath the canopy: An airborne lidar survey over Angkor, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker, northwestern Cambodia. 41st Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [More Information]

Reference Works

Fletcher, R. (2004). Materiality, space, time and outcome. In J L Blintliff (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Archaeology. (pp. 110-140). Ocford: Blackwell Publishers.
Fletcher, R. (2001). Angkor. In C. Orser (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology. (pp. 19-21). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

By Year

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2024

Pham, V., Fletcher, R. (2024). Negative Space: An Alternative Framework for Archaeoacoustics. Journal of Cognition, 7(1). [More Information]
Fletcher, R., White, K., Penny, D. (2024). Risk and Low-Density Dispersed Urbanism. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 6, 1347157. [More Information]

2023

Fletcher, R., Kim, N., White, K. (2023). Anomalous Giants. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 7. [More Information]
White, K., Fletcher, R. (2023). Anomalous Giants: Form, Operation, Differences and Outcomes. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 7, 275-311. [More Information]
Evans, D., Polkinghorne, M., Fletcher, R., Brotherson, D., Hall, T., Klassen, S., Wijker, P. (2023). Perspectives on the 'Collapse' of Angkor and the Khmer Empire: A Critical Review. In Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World, (pp. 541-553). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Hendrickson, M., Stark, M., Evans, D., Fletcher, R. (2023). Prologue: An Introduction to the Angkorian World. In Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World, (pp. 1-14). London: Routledge. [More Information]
Evans, D., Fletcher, R., Klassen, S., Pottier, C., Wijker, P. (2023). Trajectories of Urbanism in the Angkorian World. In Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Damian Evans (Eds.), The Angkorian World, (pp. 173-194). London: Routledge. [More Information]

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2022

Fletcher, R., Pottier, C. (2022). ANGKOR: A Provisional Map History of Greater Angkor from Ancestry to Transformation. In Charles F. W. Higham, Nam C. Kim (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia, (pp. 703-731). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Leung, L., Carter, E., Fletcher, R. (2022). Potential of organic residues on Chinese export porcelain from Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 45. [More Information]

2021

Fletcher, R., Hawken, S. (2021). A long-term archaeological reappraisal of low-density urbanism: Implications for contemporary cities. Journal of Urban Archaeology, 3, 29-50. [More Information]
Brotherson, D., Fletcher, R., Klassen, S., Attorre, T., Chhay, R., Johnson, W., Moffat, I. (2021). Deciphering a Timeline of Demise at Medieval Angkor, Cambodia Using Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 13(2094), 1-14. [More Information]
Klassen, S., Carter, A., Evans, D., Ortman, S., Stark, M., Loyless, A., Polkinghorne, M., Heng, P., Hill, M., Wijker, P., Fletcher, R., et al (2021). Diachronic modeling of the population within the medieval Greater Angkor Region settlement complex. Science Advances, 7(19), 1-10. [More Information]
Thuy, V., Fletcher, R., Liou, Y. (2021). Extensive, low-density Vietnamese urban settlements - 10th to 19th century CE: redefining ancestry and organization in a Southeast Asian urban tradition. World Archaeology, 53(2), 345-368. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2021). Sprawl At Risk: Lessons from Angkor, Tikal and Anuradhapura. In JW Vasbinder (Eds.), Disrupted Balance: Society at Risk, (pp. 89-91). Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. [More Information]

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2020

Fletcher, R. (2020). An opinion on issues for future investigation of the water management of Greater Angkor. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 7(5), 1-9. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2020). Nouvelles hypotheses sur le declin d'Angkor. L'Histoire, (470), 2-3.

2019

Robinson, M., Porter, A., Figueira, W., Fletcher, R. (2019). Neolithic Temples of Malta: 3D analysis points to novel roof reconstruction. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 13, 1-10. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2019). Trajectories to Low-Density Settlements Past and Present: Paradox and Outcome. Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 6, 1-21. [More Information]

2018

Fletcher, R. (2018). Angkor, food production, water management and climate change: The trajectory of urbanism in SE Asia to the mid-second millennium CE. In Federica Sulas, Innocent Pikirayi (Eds.), Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival, (pp. 238-258). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
Penny, D., Zachreson, C., Fletcher, R., Lau, D., Lizier, J., Fischer, N., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Prokopenko, M. (2018). The demise of Angkor: Systemic vulnerability of urban infrastructure to climatic variations. Science Advances, 4(10), 1-8. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2018). The Logic of Cultural Evolution. In Shuzhen Sim and Benjamin Seet (Eds.), Sydney Brenner's 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution. Singapore: Wildtype Books.
Fletcher, R., White, K. (2018). Tropical environments and trajectories to low-density settlement forms. In Nuria Sanz (Eds.), Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Forest Conservation. Integrating natural and cultural diversity for sustainability: A global perspective, (pp. 92-115). Mexico City: UNESCO.

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2017

Fletcher, R., Buckley, B., Pottier, C., Wang, S. (2017). The case of Angkor and Monsoon Extremes in Mainland Southeast Asia. In Harvey Weiss (Eds.), Megadrought and Collapse: From Early Agriculture to Angkor. New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

2016

Feneley, M., Penny, D., Fletcher, R. (2016). Claiming the hydraulic network of Angkor with Visnu: A multidisciplinary approach including the analysis of archaeological remains, digital modelling and radiocarbon dating: With evidence for a 12th century renovation of the West Mebon. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 9, 275-292. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2016). The Trantor-Coruscant Conundrum: Deep Time, Imagined Interstellar Urbanism and the SETI Debate. In Ursula K Frederick, Anne Clarke (Eds.), That Was Then, This Is Now : Contemporary Archaeology and Material Cultures in Australia, (pp. 118-133). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2015

Fletcher, R., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Rachna, C. (2015). Angkor Wat: an introduction. Antiquity, 89(348), 1388-1401. [More Information]
Lucero, L., Fletcher, R., Coningham, R. (2015). From 'collapse' to urban diaspora: the transformation of low-density, dispersed agrarian urbanism. Antiquity, 89(347), 1139-1154. [More Information]
Sonnemann, T., O'Reilly, D., Rachna, C., Fletcher, R., Pottier, C. (2015). The buried "towers" of Angkor Wat. Antiquity, 89(348), 1420-1438. [More Information]
Evans, D., Fletcher, R. (2015). The landscape of Angkor Wat redefined. Antiquity, 89(348), 1402-1419. [More Information]
Evans, D., Hanus, K., Fletcher, R. (2015). The story beneath the canopy: An airborne lidar survey over Angkor, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker, northwestern Cambodia. 41st Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [More Information]

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2014

Buckley, B., Fletcher, R., Wang, S., Zottoli, B., Pottier, C. (2014). Monsoon extremes and society over the past millennium on mainland Southeast Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 95, 1-19. [More Information]

2013

Evans, D., Fletcher, R., Tan, B. (2013). 2012 LiDAR survey over Angkor, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker. World Heritage, 68, 62-65.
Evans, D., Fletcher, R., Pottier, C., Chevance, J., Soutif, D., Boun, S., Sokrithy, I., Darith, E., Tina, T., Samnang, K., et al (2013). Uncovering archaeological landscapes at Angkor using lidar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(31), 12595-12600. [More Information]

2012

Fletcher, R. (2012). Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism: scale, power, and ecology. In Michael E Smith (Eds.), The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies, (pp. 285-320). New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Evans, D. (2012). The dynamics of Angkor and its landscape. In Alexandra Haendel (Eds.), Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia, (pp. 42-62). Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing.

2010

Buckley, B., Anchukaitis, K., Penny, D., Fletcher, R., Cook, E., Masaki, S., Nam, L., Wichienkeeo, A., Minh, T., Truong, M. (2010). Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(15), 6748-6752. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2010). Shining Stars and Black Holes: Urbanism, Comparison, and Comparability. Journal of Urban History, 36(2), 251-256. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2010). Urban Materialities: Meaning, Magnitude, Friction, and Outcomes. In Dan Hicks and Mary C Beaudry (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies, (pp. 459-483). New York, USA: Oxford University Press. [More Information]

2009

Fletcher, R. (2009). Low-Density, Agrarian-Based Urbanism: A Comparative View. Insights, 2(4), 2-19.

2008

Lustig, T., Fletcher, R., Kummu, M., Pottier, C., Penny, D. (2008). Did Traditional Cultures Live in Harmony with Nature? Lessons from Angkor, Cambodia. In Matti Kummu, Marko Keskinen, Olli Varis (Eds.), Modern myths of the Mekong: a critical review of water and development concepts, principles and policies, (pp. 81-94). Helsinki: Water & Development Publications - Helsinki University of Technology.
Fletcher, R., Pottier, C., Evans, D., Kummu, M. (2008). The Development of the Water Management System of Angkor: A Provisional Model. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 28, 57-66.
Fletcher, R., Penny, D., Evans, D., Pottier, C., Barbetti, M., Kummu, M., Lustig, T., Authority for the Protection and Mgt of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap, A. (2008). The water management network of Angkor, Cambodia. Antiquity, 82(2008), 658-670. [More Information]

2007

Evans, D., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Hensley, S., Tapley, I., Milne, A., Barbetti, M. (2007). A comprehensive archaeological map of the world's largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(36), 14277-14282. [More Information]
Fletcher, R., Johnson, I., Bruce, E., Khuon, K. (2007). Living with heritage: Site monitoring and heritage values in Greater Angkor and the Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia. World Archaeology, 39(3), 385-405. [More Information]
Fletcher, R. (2007). The Limits of Settlement Growth: A theoretical outline. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dan, P., Hua, Q., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M. (2007). The use of AMS C-14 dating to explore issues of occupation and demise at the medieval city of Angkor, Cambodia. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 259(1), 388-394. [More Information]

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2006

Fletcher, R., Penny, D., Barbetti, M., Pottier, C., Than, H., Chan, K., Somaneath, T. (2006). The Greater Angkor Project 2005-2009: Issues and Program. In Elisabeth A Bacus, Ian C Glover and Vincent C Piggot (Eds.), Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, (pp. 347-354). Singapore: National University of Singapore.
Penny, D., Pottier, C., Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M., Fink, D., Hua, Q. (2006). Vegetation and land-use at Angkor, Cambodia: a dated pollen sequence from the Bakong temple moat. Antiquity, 80(3), 599-614. [More Information]

2005

Penny, D., Pottier, C., Kummu, M., Fletcher, R., Zoppi, U., Barbetti, M., Somaneath, T. (2005). Hydrological history of the West Baray, Angkor, revealed through palynological analysis of sediments from the West Mebon. Bulletin de l'ecole Francaise d'extreme-Orient, 92(3), 497-521.

2004

Fletcher, R., Evans, D., Tapley, I., Milne, A. (2004). Angkor: Extent, Settlement Pattern And Ecology. Preliminary Results Of An Airsar Survey In September 2000. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Bulletin, 24, 130-138.
Fletcher, R. (2004). Materiality, space, time and outcome. In J L Blintliff (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Archaeology. (pp. 110-140). Ocford: Blackwell Publishers.
Zoppi, U., Barbetti, M., Fletcher, R., Hua, Q., Chhem, R., Pottier, C., Watanasak,, M. (2004). The Contribution Of C-14 Ams Dating To The Greater Angkor Archaeological Project. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 223-24, 681-685. [More Information]

2003

Fletcher, R. (2003). Angkor. Great Temples - Vast City. Lotus Leaves, 11, 4-7.
Fletcher, R. (2003). Barbed Wire was an Invention to Control American Cows: What is Required in a Neo-Darwinian Theory of Cultural Behaviour? Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 13(2), 288-293.
Polkinghorne, M., Fletcher, R. (2003). Bounded space: the continuous galleries at Angkor. TAASA Review, 12(2), 6-7.
Fletcher, R., Barbetti, M., Evans, D., Than, H., Sokrithy, I., Chan, D., Penny, D., Pottier, C., Somaneath, T. (2003). Redefining Angkor: Structure and environment in the largest, low density urban complex of the pre-industrial world. Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies, 4, 107-121.

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2002

Fletcher, R., Pottier, C. (2002). AIRSAR radar image insert of central Angkor. Museum International (English Edition), 54, one page insert.
Fletcher, R., Christian, P. (2002). The Gossamer City: a new inquiry. Museum International (English Edition), 54, 23-27.
Fletcher, R. (2002). The hammering of society: non-correspondence and modernity. In John Schofield, William Gray Johnson and Colleen M. Beck (Eds.), Materiel culture : the archaeology of twentieth-century conflict, (pp. 303-311). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.

2001

Fletcher, R. (2001). Angkor. In C. Orser (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology. (pp. 19-21). London: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Fletcher, R. (2001). Seeing Angkor â€“ new views on an old city. JOSA: The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 32(33), 1-25.

Selected Grants

2017

University of Sydney Ankgor Research Facility at Siem Reap, Cambodia, Fletcher R, DVC Research/Research Support
CRISIS: Crisis Response in Interdependent Social-Infrastructure Systems, Prokopenko M, Altmann E, Bunker D, Fletcher R, Lizier J, Nigmatullin R, Miles R, Penny D, Sarkar S, Sleigh A, DVC Research/Sydney Research Excellence Initiative 2020 (SREI)

2016

Re-defining Collapse: Angkors urban diaspora 1300-1800 CE, Fletcher R, Penny D, Polkinghorne M, Evans D, Pottier C, Hendrickson M, Stark M, Cort L, Thompson A, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2011

The Koh Ker, Angkorian urban area survey, Evans D, Fletcher R, National Geographic Society (USA)/Research Grant

2010

Angkor research program (Monash and USyd), Fletcher R, Chandler T, Monash University/Collaborative Agreement
Chinese ceramics throughout Angkor: Date, origin and implications for the operation and demise of Angkor, Li B, Li B, Fletcher R, DVC Research/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme
Greater Angkor - from ancestry to abandonment: the growth, daily life and transformation of the suburbs of Angkor, Fletcher R, Riegel J, Pottier C, Stark M, Miksic J, Ang C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2008

EFEO-University of Sydney Angkor Digital Archive Program, Fletcher R, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant
The SE Asia-Mesoamerica Urban Heritage Collaboration , USA C, Fletcher R, Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant

2007

Mapping the past using advanced technologies: Satellite applications for uncovering archaeological remains at Angkor, Evans D, Fletcher R, Johnson I, Traviglia A, Traviglia R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage International: ARC International Fellowships (ARCIF)

2004

2039 - Radiocarbon Dating Of Rice Husk Temper From Angkorean Brick Temples, Fletcher R, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)/Awards
Urban infrastructure, inertia and ecology: the growth and decline of angkor, cambodia (9th to 16th Century AD), Barbetti M, Fletcher R, Penny D, Pottier C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
2004-Linkage Living with Heritage: Integrating time, Place and Culture for World Heritage Conservati, Fletcher R, McLaren A, Department of the Environment and Heritage/Project Support
Living with Heritage: Integrating time place and culture for World Heritage conservation, Bruce E, Fletcher R, Johnson I, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)

2001

Angkor and the Limits of Pre-industrial Urban Growth: magnitude, residence pattern and duration, Barbetti M, Fletcher R, Pottier C, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)

2000

Angkor: the limits of pre-industrial urban growth, Fletcher R, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Small Grants

1999

TimeMap Korea: an electronic atlas of the history of Korea, Fletcher R, Australia-Korea Found(via Dept Foreign Affairs & Trade)/Research Grant
TIMEMAP: An analytic, information system for generating interactive visualisation to dynamically represent cultural change in space and time, Fletcher R, Johnson I, McPhedran R, Patrick J, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Strategic Partnerships with Industry - Research and Training (SPIRT)
Angkor Project of the University of Sydney, Fletcher R, World Monuments Fund (USA)/Research Grant

Other Internal Grants

University of Sydney – University of Edinburgh Partnership Collaboration Awards (PCA) 2022-2023, Sustainable cities? Assessing risk and resilience of low-density urbanism in the face of climate change, Prof Roland Fletcher (USyd) and Dr Manuel Fernandez-Gotz (Edinburgh)

Videos

Thinking Beyond October 2024 - The Evolution of Intelligence on Earth and Implications for SETI, by Roland Fletcher. In the webinar series of Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, Director Paul Davies.
“Climate Change and Disrupted Cities: Past and Future” (Disrupted Balance conference, 2016).
“Complexity and Heritage Sciences” (Heritage Science as a Complex System conference, 2016).
"Breaking the Wall Around Vulnerable Megacities" (Falling Walls Foundation, 2015)
“On Past Futures” (Sydney Writers Festival, 2015).
“Angkor Wat’s Hidden Megacity” (SBS documentary, 2015).
“Emerging Cultural Patterns: 100,000 BP to the Present” (Emerging Patterns conference, 2015).
“Breaking the Wall Around Vulnerable Megacities: How the Study of Past Civilisations can Help the Cities of the Future” (Falling Walls conference, 2014).
“LiDAR, Water and the Demise of Greater Angkor” (University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, 2013).

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