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A three-year studentship is being offered for people interested in the prehistory of the Indian Ocean in the SEALINKS project in the UK. The long term research project is led by Dr. Nicole Boivin of the University of Cambridge. Closing date is April 17. Find out more about the studentship here. About the project: The [...] Artefacts dating to the Ha Long culture (c. 4000 years BP) are uncovered in a current excavation underway at a cave site in northeastern Vietnam. Quang Ninh: More vestige of prehistoric man discovered VietNamNetBridge, 19 March 2008 [...] Cambodia announces plans to develop the border temple of Preah Vihear into a tourist site that will “rival Angkor Wat”. The thing is, isn’t the temple already a tourist destination, on the Thai side of the border? Cambodia to develop Preah Vihear into tourism spot Xinhua, 18 March 2008 [...] What do Dungeons & Dragons have in common with ancient Indonesian ruins, Malay dances and explosion of the Toba volcano? Why, they’re all in this week’s edition of rojak – and more! photo credit: basibanget [...] The Thai Ayutthaya-period temple of Wat Pho in Bangkok is to be included in next year’s UNESCO Memory of the World programme (Note – not the World Heritage programme). Wat Pho is particularly famous for its gigantic statue of the reclining Buddha – but that’s not really the reason why it’s being included in the [...] A number of priceless antique weapons were stolen from the Malaysian Historic and Ethnography Museum in Malacca, Malaysia over the weekend, chalking up a loss amounting to “millions of ringgit”. photo credit: Marshall Astor – Food Pornographer Antique keris and pistols stolen from museum (The Star, 16 March 2008) Priceless Malaysian museum artifacts stolen [...] The National Public Radio’s Science Friday programme has a 12-minute interview with Lee Berger, the principal investigator of the Palau skeletons. Find out what this find means for the homo floresiensis debate and for our understanding of humankind in general. photo credit: Rosino Discovery Casts Doubt on ‘Hobbit’ Theory NPR, 14 March 2008 [...] Is Angkor in danger of sinking, or isn’t it? The consensus among the scientific community is that the strain on underground water resources is unacceptably high, but the Cambodian government is saying, “not just yet”. photo credit: anaru Heritage site in peril: Angkor Wat is falling down The Independent, 14 March 2008 [...] Warang Petch writes in this feature for the Museum of Underwater Archaeology about students learning techniques to conduct archaeology underwater in Thailand. Underwater Archaeology Training Project Hin Bush Shipwreck Site, Rayong, Thailand Museum of Underwater Archaeology [...] |
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