Dr. Piphal Heng is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, specializing in the Southeast Asian archaeology. His research focuses on urbanism, political economy, and religious transformation in Cambodia, with particular attention to the Angkorian and post-Angkorian periods (9th-18th century CE). Dr. Heng integrates geospatial technologies—including LiDAR, remote sensing, and spatial analysis—with archaeological fieldwork to examine long-term landscape use, settlement patterns, and urban infrastructure. He currently directs the Phum Archaeology project, which explores the social and spatial dynamics of low-density urbanism in the Lower Mekong basin.
