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"We saw signs that embankments had been breached and of ad hoc repairs to bridges and dams, suggesting that the system became unmanageable over time." said Damian Evans, the author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/div>\n
\n"Angkor was extensive enough, and the agricultural exploitation intensive enough, to have created a number of very serious<\/div>\n
environmental problems," he said.<\/div>\n
\nDeforestation, over population, topsoil erosion and degradation with subsequent sedimentation or flooding could have been disastrous for <\/div>\n
the medieval population, he said.<\/div>\n
\nThe settlement surrounding Angkor, the one-time capital of the illustrious Khmer empire which flourished between the ninth and 14th<\/div>\n
centuries, covered a 3,000 square kilometre area.<\/div>\n
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