New bilateral relations between Cambodia and Thailand’s new government are off to a promising start after the first meeting between the two foreign ministers saw an agreement to repatriate some artefacts that were confiscated by Thailand 10 years ago. The artefacts were believed to be enroute to Singapore through Thailand, a major smuggling route for [...]
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Ethnoarchaeologists might find this site useful, perhaps? The Center for Ethnic Studies and Development at Chiang Mai University has a website with a database of downloadable articles about ethnic populations in Southeast Asia. While there is a distinct Thai focus in the site, about 40% of the 12,000 articles are in English. An e-museum also [...] Malaysia’s Star takes us on a tour of the 10 most beautiful temples in the world – all notably Asian, and half of them from Southeast Asia. photo credit: Master å¿ƒé“ When faith takes form The Star, 24 January 2009 [...] A seminar by the Vietnamese Institution for the Preservation of Relics was held last week to discuss ways to preserve and develop the ancient village of Duong Lam, some 60 km away from Hanoi. The village’s history goes as far back as 1,200 years and is the a popular tourist location. Many of the houses [...] While we’re on the topic of the Austronesian migration, the same issue of Science also carried another article about the tracing of human migration through the pacific. This time, the tracing of human bacteria indicate two splits of pacific populations from Asian ones, the first occurring around 30,000 years ago, while the second through one [...] Our understanding of the recent expansion of the Austronesian-speaking language groups out of Taiwan and into Southeast Asia and Polynesia is enhanced by a new paper out in Science, which argues through the analysis of 400 Austronesian languages that the Austronesian expansion occurred in pulses, which were correlated to the development of new technologies and [...] This looks like a step in the right direction: the Centre for Khmer Studies ave started work on creating a network for archaeologists in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to work together, and more importantly generate inter-regional research projects operating under the same methodology. As a region, I think the archaeological traditions in each country are [...] Khmerization translates an article in Koh Santeapheap about the looting of a 1,000-year-old man-made hill in Svay Rieng Province. The unauthorised dig was done apparently with the collusion of the local district chief and chief of police before excavations were stopped by the provincial heritage office. A thousand year old burial site looted by [...] Speaking of websites, the Cham Museum of Da Nang Province was also recently launched their own website last week. Da Nang is some 30 km away from Hoi An, and the 90-year-old museum is home to a large repository of stone, terracotta and bronze statuary from Cham sies like My Son and Tra Kieu. [...] I got an email from Dougald O’Reilly of Heritage Watch last week about their revamped website which you should check out here. Heritage Watch is a Cambodian-based NGO aimed at the preservation of Southeast Asia’s heritage and do a lot of good grassroots level work particularly with sustainable tourist models in Angkor. [...] |
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