Congratulations to Dr. Kira Westaway for winning one of the Science Gongs for her research with the homo floresiensis.
photo credit: Ryan Somma
Hobbit researchers win science gong Sydney Morning Herald, 29 October 2009
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The Archaeology of Buddhist Sumatra Date: 22 October 2009 Time: 4 – 6 pm Venue: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Seminar Room II Registration Required: Email Betty (betty@iseas.edu.sg) by 21 Oct 2009 [...] A spotlight on Vietnamese archaeologist Doan Ngoc Khoi, who has spent most of his career investigating the prehistoric Sa Huynh culture. Culture digger Thanh Nien Daily, 31 August 2009 [...] In this edition of rojak, we feature not one, but two digital recreations of ancient sites in Cambodia, along with other interesting things picked up from the web on the archaeology of Southeast Asia. [...] The late Kazimieriz Kwiatkhowski from Poland is to be honoured with a statue of him built in Quang Nam Province, in recognition for his rstoration work done at the My Son Sanctuary, where he worked to restore during the 1980s. For an up-to-date biography of Kwiathowski and his work in My Son, I recommend the [...] Prof Mike Morwood of the Wollongong University is giving this year’s Mulvaney Lecture at the Australian National University. He led the team that was responsible for the discovery of the Indonesian hobbit, or Homo Floresiensis. 2009 Mulvaney Lecture – Hobbits in Context: Hominin Biogeography in Island South East Asia Lecture Theatre 1, Manning Clark Centre, [...] Congratulations to Dr. Dougald O’Reilly for being recognised by the Archaeological Institute of America in his work in Conservation and Heritage Management! Dr O’Reilly is the founder and director of Heritage Watch, which has done many good things to help preserve the cultural heritage of Cambodia in particular. Heritage award for Cambodia specialist University of [...] What kind of royal screw-up led to Roxanna Brown’s death? Details of the ill-fated detention of the esteemed Dr Brown is recounted in the Seattle Times, with disturbing and sad revelations over how she was denied medical care and attention which led to her untimely and unnecessary death. (Thanks to Black Rose Press for the [...] Vietnam’s Institute of Archaeology is set to explore a relatively new concept in archaeological practice: community-based archaeology, which is a grassroots-centred movement to get local people interested and preserving their own past. This interview with the vice-director of the Institute of Archaeology explains further. Residents to help dig up the past Viet Nam News, 15 [...] I met Dr Rasmi Shoocongdej at a conference last year when she presented her work on community-driven heritage management and archaeology at her project in Mae Hong Son in northern Thailand; the Bangkok Post carried a feature on the archaeologist from Silpakorn University last week. Digging up the past Bangkok Post, 04 September 2008 [...] |
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