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Burial practices in the Cardamom Mountains

Around 600 years ago, highlanders living in the remote Cardamom Mountains placed the bones of their dead in large ceramic jars on steep ledges or in small wooden coffins - a practice unique to the south east Asian country.

Tep Sokha on jar ledge.

Ceramics conservation in the field.

Coffins on the cliff, Phnom Pel.

Dr Nancy Beavan with burial jars.

Dr Sian Halcrow inspecting a skull.

Face of the body.

Khnorng Sroal burial jars.

Nancy among the coffins.

Nancy Beavan inspecting coffin.

Nancy Beavan in Cambodian archaeology site.

Phnom Pel coffin ledge and villagers inspecting conservation work.

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