The New York Times carries a review of the ‘Arts of Ancient Vietnam – From River Plain to Open Sea’, currently exhibiting at the Asia Society Museum in New York.
Ancient Sphere Where Cultures Mingled New York Times, 04 February 2010
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The BBC World Service has a podcast on China’s Forgotten Admiral – Admiral Zheng He, who in the 1400s travelled from China to Africa, making stops through Southeast Asia. China’s Forgotten Admiral BBC World Service, 05 February 2010 [...] The director-general of the Thai Fine Arts Department reports on the progress of a project to digitally recreate the buildings of Ayutthaya. Ayutthaya Historical Park taking shape The Nation, 05 February 2010 [...] An archaeological team from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Terengganu Museum report the discovery of human skeletal remains, estimated to be about 8,000 years-old, from a site at Kenyir cave at the state of Terengganu in the Malaysian Peninsula. Mesolithic Age Skeletal Remains Found In Terengganu Cave Bernama, 06 February 2010 8,000-year-old human remains found [...] The Asia Society in New York opens the exhibition Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea last week. Readers who might not be able to make it to New York for the exhibition may be interested in the book available here. Ancient Vietnam exhibition opens in the US VOV News, 02 [...] A new paper published in BMC Biology may possibly reconcile the small size of the Hobbit’s brain with tool use – one of the arguments against the hobbit being a new species as it is assumed that for something as sophisticated as tool use – you’d need a pretty big brain. The study by Montgomery [...] The Earth Times reports that the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project has discovered the first instance of a secondary burial in Laos. Read detail accounts of the recent fieldwork in Laos on the MMAP blog.
Secondary Burial from Tham An Mah. Image from the MMAP blog. Iron Age discovery uncovers prehistoric burial customs in [...] |
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