A call for papers related to history, anthropology, heritage studies and other social sciences relating to Malays. This journal published by the Malay Language and Culture department of the National Institute of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University is calling for papers for the second issue to be published at the end of the year. The deadline [...]
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Vietnamese archaeologists have recovered what is believed to be a 19th century trading vessel from the Red (Hong) River. Among the artefacts recovered are cloth dyes, 18th century Chinese ceramics. Ship salvaged from Red River Viet Nam News, 20 March 2009 [...] The Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies is back again! The forum is organised by the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Registration details can be found here. 4th Asian Graduate Forum On Southeast Asian Studies Date: 13 Jul 2009 – 17 Jul 2009 Venue: National University of Singapore, Bukit Timah Campus [...] The Thai Fine Arts department is sounding the alarm bells over the actions of squatters who are encroaching into the lands of the ancient Thai capital, Sukhothai. It doesn’t sound as if the squatters are damaging the site, I wonder if dialogue can be initiated between the squatters and the Fine Arts Department to come [...] The 1,400-year-old Sambur Prei Kuk (alternatively Sambor Prey Kuk) temple in Cambodia’s Kampong Thom Province will be submitted to UNESCO for inclusion into the World Heritage Site list. This pre-Angkoran temple was built in the reign of Isanavarman I. Cambodia to ask UN to list 1,400-year-old temple as world heritage site People’s Daily Online, 16 [...] It looks like Cambodia is unable to stop the sale of Khmer artefacts in other countries, or in eBay because such artefacts need to be ‘listed’ as an item of cultural heritage. But such an exercise in listing and inventorying requires far more resources than Cambodia can currently afford. Is this a loophole in the [...] A farmer in Vietnam is featured for his collection of ancient sculpture, about a hundred in total, many of which are said to be from the Oc Eo area in the Mekong River Delta. Oc Eo was a major port of the Funan kingdom, centred in South Vietnam from the 1st to the 7th century. [...] The Peking Man (homo erectus, same as the Java Man) made the news last week for being older than previously thought – but what happened to his bones? This and more in this week’s Rojak. photo credit: ideonexus [...] This piece from the Jakarta post reveals more about the poor management of archaeological heritage in Trowulan and the downward spiral that has led to last year’s protest over the Trowulan Information Centre. It’s interesting to note that while local superstition has been quite effective in keeping a number of locals from looting, Majapahit artefacts [...] Prehistoric skeletal remains dating 3,500 years (Neolithic?) and ancient tools were found from an excavation in central Aceh in Indonesia. It’ll be interesting to see how the find fits in with contemporary skeletal remains found in Southeast Asia, although I think some of the remarks reported are quite dubious: how did they conclude from the [...] |
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