A new study on the wrist bones recovered from the homo floresiensis assembly adds extra weight to our Hobbit from Flores being an entirely new species rather than a sick, deformed human. There are a few other stories popping up today so stay tuned for more insights! It’s a really busy day at work, so hopefully I can post them all up by the end of the day. [...]
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The ANU E Press, the digital imprint of the Australian National University is offering a range of scholarly texts from the ANU academic community – for free. These three books in particular are available for download which would be of interest to readers of this site: Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago, The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, and The Austronesians. [...] The United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation has a donation page in which you can pledge support to help preserve World Heritage sites like Angkor, Borobdur, the Ban Chiang archaeological site, Ayutthaya, My Son (find a list of UNESCO archaeological heritage site in our resource page) and other heritage sites worldwide. [...] Readers in Zurich might be interested in an ongoing exhibition on Angkor at the Reitburg Museum. [...] Two stories featuring the museums in Jakarta, both concerned with how to make museums more relevant for a future, different public. [...] With stories like these, one gets the impression that there is a lot of undiscovered archaeological potential in the Philippine islands that have yet to be surveyed, excavated and recovered. In this piece, the author writes about how archaeological material – prehispanic material culture as well as trade ceramics – have been recovered in the town of Bantayan, in Cebu. [...] Besides mentioning the three cannons posted yesterday, other finds mentioned here include a bas-relief of a naga, a snake-deity in Hindu mythology, and a bronze Dong Son drum. [...] Bangkok Post carries an interview with Thai archaeologist and anthropologist Srisakra Vallibhotama. I’m no expert in Thai history and archaeology, so I find it interesting of the article’s mention about how he’s challenging the notion of Thai history starting with the Dvaravati kingdom (instead of Sukhothai), and more interestingly his rejection of the theory that Sukohthai was colonised by the Khmers. Of both issues I am unfamiliar with, although I suspect that politics is involved somewhere. Would any reader like to shed light on the situation? [...] Cannon and gunpowder technology were first invented in China, which must have surely diffused towards Southeast Asia. The technology was highly improved upon by the Europeans however. [...] |
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