Acknowledgement

most published texts on history remain unaltered since the 1960ies and reflect the historiography of the Georges Coedes era. There is no doubt Georges Coedes is one of the greatest historians for Cambodia, who has provided lots of pioneering work and lead the way of methodology.... But since his retirement many new sources, in particular great numbers of Khmer inscriptions have become available. Hardly noticed, entire sections reviewed in the 70ies and 80ies, them replaced in turn in the 90ies and so on... However, as debate among historians progresses normally, archaeology and geo-dating getting more and more important, publishers of second and third grade resources stubbornly copy the (in some cases 60 years) old texts.