Research Interests:

Associate Professor Fletcher, the principal Director and instigator of the GAP, is an archaeologist and spatial theorist with experience in the archaeology and ethnography of settlement dynamics. Has worked on the analysis of settlements in contemporary Ghana, on archaeological sites in Egypt and the SW of the USA. As Research Collaborator at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC) in 1995-6 he researched the 30 largest pre-industrial cities, most of which were in Asia. Has developed his specific expertise on Angkor over the past decade.

Current Projects:

Settlement patters, water management infrastructure, the growth and demise of low-density urban settlements. 

Selected Publications:

• Fletcher R., Evans D.H., Tapley, I.J. 2002. AIRSAR's contribution to understanding the Angkor World Heritage Site, Cambodia - Objectives and preliminary findings from an examination of PACRIM2 datasets. Proceedings of the 2002 AIRSAR Earth Science and Application Workshop, NASA/JPL http://airsar.jpl.nasa.gov/documents/workshop2002/papers/P1.pdf
• Kummu, M., Evans, D. and Fletcher, R. The Dynamics of Water Management of Angkor, Cambodia, 9th to 16th Century. Proceedings of the 3rd International Water History Assoaciation Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, 11-14 December 2003. CD-ROM.
• Fletcher, R.J., Barbetti, M., Evans, D., Than, H., Sorithy, I., Chan, K., Penny, D., Pottier, C. and Somaneath, T. 2003. Redefining Angkor: Structure and environment in the largest, low density urban complex of the pre-industrial world. UDAYA 4: 107-21
Tapley, I., T. Milne, R. Fletcher and D. Evans. 2003. An AIRSAR Analysis of Angkor, Cambodia. Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 10-14 2003. CD-ROM.
Fletcher, R., Evans D., Tapley IJ, Milne AK. 2004. Angkor: Extent, settlement pattern and ecology. Preliminary results of an AIRSAR survey in September 2000. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 24: 130-8

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