The numerous monuments can also be used to establish a kind of chronology.Some, as noted above, have yielded inscriptions which can provide a fairly firm date, and dates for many others can be proposed on comparative grounds when the decor is similar; though in such cases the chronology remains necessarily an approximation. In the early days of western historical research it was inevitable that to a large extent there would be a lack of objectivity. Indeed postulates were put forward which to this day can still be difficult to discard. Thus the art of Bayon was long thought to be the 'primitive art' and was dated to the early ninth century, until Philippe Stern and subsequently George Coedes realised at thee end of the 1920s that on the contrary it marked the end of the classical period.
Nevertheless,although the renowned study of the evolution of motifs, which Stern had elaborated in 1926 and which had brought him to this important conclusion, has given many other concrete results, it is scarcely possible to use his method rigorously across the board because of uncertainty over dates and also because the Khmers were adept at producing skilful copies of statues and motifs belonging to earlier periods.
The numerous monuments can also be used to establish a kind of chronology.Some, as noted above, have yielded inscriptions which can provide a fairly firm date, and dates for many others can be proposed on comparative grounds when the decor is similar; though in such cases the chronology remains necessarily an approximation. In the early days of western historical research it was inevitable that to a large extent there would be a lack of objectivity. Indeed postulates were put forward which to this day can still be difficult to discard. Thus the art of Bayon was long thought to be the 'primitive art' and was dated to the early ninth century, until Philippe Stern and subsequently George Coedes realised at thee end of the 1920s that on the contrary it marked the end of the classical period.
Nevertheless,although the renowned study of the evolution of motifs, which Stern had elaborated in 1926 and which had brought him to this important conclusion, has given many other concrete results, it is scarcely possible to use his method rigorously across the board because of uncertainty over dates and also because the Khmers were adept at producing skilful copies of statues and motifs belonging to earlier periods.
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