The Radya Pustaka Musem is in the news again, after the discovery that a substantial number of bronze artefacts in the museum’s collection are in fact, fakes. The oldest museum in Indonesia was in the news late last year when a theft ring was busted, involving some of the staff of the museum who made [...]
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The National Museum of Cambodia is boosted by a full-time staff of archaeological team, whose work is to restore and conserve the museums’s ceramics collection. This is made possible by funding from the Smithsonian Institute. Smithsonian funds new lab Phnom Penh Post, 25 September 2008 [...] Archaeological remains from the southern Vietnamese site of Ia Mor reveals human remains, stone tools and jewellery. Remains of prehistoric men unearthed Vietnam Net Bridge, 24 September 2008 [...] Southeast Asia is the crossroads to a number of human migrations, the largest of which must have been the Austronesian migration. Somewhere between 8,000 to 6,000 years ago, the Austronesians migrated from Southeast China or Taiwan, down the Philippine islands before splitting east to Polynesia and West to Southeast Asia. Based on linguistic and archaeological [...] The Philippine National Museum in Cebu steps up security at a construction site in Cebu after reports of looting. Security tightened at construction site near National Museum Cebu Daily News, 24 September 2008 [...] Stylistic differences indicate that the anthropomorphic jars that were seized earlier as part of an illegal haul in Maitum may represent a different tribe from that was excavated in 1991. The looters apparently used the published archaeological report on the Maitum jars as a reference when they recovered the jars years before. Seized cultural artifacts [...] Spurred by the discovery of the ancient Majapahit’s kingdom’s town square, the head of the Trowulan Conservation Centre is tasking the archaeologists to press on with locating the kingdom’s ancient royal palace. Archeologists challenged to locate Majapahit palace Jakarta Post, 22 September 2008 [...] A potsherd adds to another piece of the puzzle about early Philippine writing systems. Most writing systems in Southeast Asia were derived from India (with the exception of China in Vietnam), and the Philippines has remarkably few paleographic references, with the earliest dating to 900 AD. Shard find in Intramuros shows early form of writing [...] Archaeology doesn’t necessarily have to go way back thousands of years to understand the lives and times of people who lived before – sometimes it’s as recent as World War II, as revealed by a cache of Australian military relics unearthed in Sabah. They are the grim remnants of the infamous Sandakan Death Marches, which [...] The coverage of the Neolithic skeletons unearthed in Sarawak continues… (Read my fuller account here). Malaysian archaeologists find complete Neolithic skeletons AFP, via The Nation (Pakistan), 19 September 2008 Neolithic skeletons found: report SBS, 19 September 2008 Skeletons shed light on humans during Neolithic age The Star, 19 September 2008 [...] |
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