Srok Khmer History

Cambodia is the English’s vision ;  Cambodge Kampuja Kampujadesa are other version from many different countries , They called their country Kampucha or Khmer , Cambodia one of the country located in the Southeast Asia in a part of the Indochina peninsula,  share the border to three different countries ; Thailand to the West and Northwest ( 803 km )  , Loa to the North ( 541 km ) , Vietnam to the Northeast all the way to the South ( 1228 km ) , Border to the Gulf of Thailand on Southwest ( 443 km ) . Kampucha share border more than 2600 km to those three countries . Kampucha run from west to East 560 km North to South 440 km , Comprise with 181,035 square km .
Area; total: 181,035 km²
land: 176,520 km²
water: 4,520 km
The pre-historic in Cambodia believed to begin from about 5000 BC According to the researching and excavation done by the Cambodia and foreigners archaeologists , There were a lot of evidences to prove that the fact of Cambodia Pre-historic period subjected on the tools of the daily life needs of the inhabitants they had found such as ; the potteries made of the clay The polished stone material ( the polished stone era  ) Axes Knives Hooks for using to fish and combs .... so on .

The oldest Pre-historic site in Cambodia was Loang Spean in the Battambang province ( present name of the province located at the west of Tonle sap lake ) in this station they found its inhabitants loving in the caves, they also found some fish and animal bones in this site . The archeologists estimated the age of the Loang Spean station for about 5000 to 2000 BC .

The second oldest station was at Memuot in Kom Pong Cham province (present name of the province located at the south part of Cambodia )  ,  in this station the inhabitants stopped living in the caves but they living in a groups within the circle villages. Despite their circle villages comprised the dirt dam surrounding for protection themselves from animal or enemy attack. This station site believed of 2000 to 1500 BC , Now we can see the way they developed themselves  they had improved their living a bit better .

The third station was founded at the Samrong Sen in Kompong Chnang province (present name of the province located at the southeast of Tonle sap ) and other one was at the Molou Prei in Preah Vihear province these two station they had found some of the tools made of the mental ; like Arrows  Hooks for fishing and sickles .... so on the archeologists found human and animal bones . Samrong Sen and Moluo Prei station estimated 1500 to 200 BC , now we can see they developed themselves from being using Polished stone materials to use iron tools

As you see they had improved them selves from living in the caves to the plateau and settle their living in the valley areas that was fact to provide then an opportunity for improving their lives from the Pre-historic to period of Proto-history .

When they moved from the Plateau area to the valley area inhabitants had knowledge to grow rice and to raise the animals such as the water buffalos and horses , as they grown rice that is why that they found many of sickles make of mental sickle had used for the reaping the crops .

The pre-historic of Cambodia ended in between 50 to 100 AD when the inhabitants began contact to Indian and Chinese then the proto-history came to instead of  Pre-historic . By the way Cambodia know how to mine the iron to make the materials for their daily lives used since 1000 to 500 BC, the human bones in the Pre-historic site were suggested very semblance to the modern Cambodia . Chela is considering as the second state of Cambodia.

Category: Khmer, Nation