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Singapore coverage of the NSC Field School

noelbynature — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:59:31 +0000

The Straits Times’ coverage of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School. I’ve been hanging out with the participants this past week and today we are on a field trip to some of the local museums. Posts on that in a few days!

Field-school programme participants picking up ancient pottery fragments in Kou Pnouv, Straits Times 20120130

New programme brings SE Asia’s young archaeologists together
The Straits Times, 30 January 2012

While history undergraduate Christine Chan’s peers at the National University of Singapore were busy working on their honours-year theses, she was taking four weeks off to visit Cambodian archaeological sites and attend workshops in the field.

She was among 10 young people from top Asia-Pacific universities picked to attend the first field-school programme organised by the newly set-up Archaeology Unit of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies’ Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre.

Participants spent two weeks in Cambodia’s existing and potential excavation sites this month, and are finishing up a two-week stint here, attending workshops and studying artefacts.

Full story here.

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School opens in Singapore

noelbynature — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:50:48 +0000

The Singapore part of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School opened today at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School 2012

The opening ceremony this morning saw an opening address by the director of ISEAS, Ambassador K. Kesavapany, the guest-of-honour Prof. Prasenjit Duara of the Asia Research Institute and a lecture on the archaeology of Singapore by Porf. John Miksic.

The participants are a varied bunch, representing the a spectrum from the East Asia Summit countries. Over the next two weeks, they will be attending lectures on various topics, getting some lab experience with handling ceramics and embarking on some field trips. I’ll be tagging along on some of these field trips to some of the museums – especially the ones I haven’t had a chance to visit yet. Stay tuned!

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School Opening Event 25 January 2012

noelbynature — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:52:55 +0000

The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre’s Field School is underway in Cambodia right now, and next week the participants will be moving to Singapore for the second half of the programme. The opening ceremony will be held next Wednesday. Registrations to attend the ceremony are open til tomorrow.

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School Opening Ceremony

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Field School Opening Event
Venue: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, Seminar Room 2
Date: 25 January 2012
Time: 10am – 1.30pm
RSVP: betty@iseas.edu.sg

Ifugao Field School, summer 2012

noelbynature — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:53:31 +0000

The University of Guam, in collaboration with the National Museum of the Philippines, University of the Philippines, and the Ifugao State University will be conducting a field school at the World Heritage-listed Ifugao rice terraces in summer 2012. Applications close Feb 28, 2012

photo credit: Stefan Munder

2012 University of Guam Archaeological Field School
Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippines
Summer 2012

The University of Guam Archaeological Field School in Kiangan, Ifugao introduces students to the multidisciplinary nature of landscape archaeology research, while also offering insights on relationships between human communities and their environment. The research program has eight goals: 1) to involve anthropology undergraduates from a wide range of host institution types, genders, and ethnicities; 2) introduce students to the multidisciplinary nature of landscape archaeology; 3) provide field research engagement and opportunities to students in the American Pacific; 4) provide hypothesis-driven undergraduate projects with guidance from faculty mentors and international collaborators; 5) encourage students to pursue graduate studies in Anthropological Archaeology; 6) provide students necessary training to work in historic preservation; 7) establish an ongoing research program where students will be able to collaborate with students and professors outside of UOG, and develop scientific-writing skills; and, provide a meaningful field experience to undergraduate participants by directly working with Ifugao descendant communities.

Full details here.

Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Archaeology Field School

noelbynature — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:51:40 +0000

Applications are open for the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Archaeology Field School in Cambodia and Singapore.

NSC Archaeology Field School
January 9 – February 5 2012
Details here.

Dates: January 9-February 5, 2012

Venues: Cambodia and Singapore

Applications are being sought from students interested in pursuing a four-week intensive programme of study including archaeological laboratory analysis, visits to archaeological sites and museums, and lectures. Financial assistance with travel expenses and a stipend to help cover daily living expenses will be provided.

Applicants for the programme should be enrolled in a postgraduate programme or in their final year of undergraduate study. Preferred fields of specialization include archaeology, history, and art history. They should be citizens of East Asia Summit (EAS) countries. The 17 East Asia Summit countries are: Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Laos, Vietnam, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, Russia, and the United States.

Invitation: The Palawan Island Road Transect Project

noelbynature — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:15:50 +0000

The Wilhelm Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology is seeking crew members and funds (approximately USD$7,000) for the Palawan Island Road Transect Project 2011. I’ve included excerpts from the project description document in this post, and the full document can be downloaded at the end, along with the itinerary. Those interested to serve as field crew or to help fund the project should contact Mr Danny Galang at db.galang [at] yahoo.com

photo credit: badchick804

The Palawan Island Road Transect 2011
Project Description
Itinerary (9-22 April 2011)

The Palawan Road Transect 2011 is a fund raiser for the benefit of The Wilhelm Solheim II Foundation for Philippine Archaeology in support of its advocacy to further the practice and study of archaeology. The Transect will need at least PhP312, 000.00 to cover the cost of the project. The medium and long term community impact of the project may be gleaned from the emergent heritage consciousness of the people in the surrounding communities of Dewil Valley in particular and the enrichment of archaeological knowledge of Philippine Archaeology in general.

The Island of Palawan in western Philippines is physically the longest island province, in fact the longest province, in all of the Philippines. It lies on a general north-south axis with a westerly drift going south. The northern parts of Palawan are geologically older than any part of the country having once been a part of Sundaland. This fact gave the island province pre-imminent role in shedding light on Philippine prehistory like the Tabon Caves in Quezon has shown and the continuing archaeological excavations in El Nido enriches even more. It also made the province unrivalled in biodiversity from deep antiquity to the present.

More contemporary resource exploitation practices have had serious consequences to the Palawan ecosystem that placed many of its flora and fauna under threat of extinction and its natural physical features in continuing degradation. More recent years, however, have been replete with commendable efforts by citizens, official and private sector alike to arrest and reverse the process.

It is in the light of the foregoing that The Palawan Island Road Transect 2011 would be carried out.

Concept:
As its primary route this transect shall span the whole south-to-north main road system that serves the whole island province from Brookes Point in the south to Sibsaltan, El Nido to the north. Selected left and right laterals from this trunk road shall be included in so far as they inform the objectives of the project or shed light on some points related to geology, indigenous people, environment, etc. It shall be staged in time for the archaeology field season between April and May.

The road transect means to acquaint participants and the larger public that would be reached by communications media of the rich diversity that underlie Palawanâ€™s uniqueness among Philippine provinces – its tapestry of peoples and their material culture, the twenty-first century community-based environmental conservation and restoration effort, the visual feast that characterize its geology and landscape, and most especially Palawanâ€™s rich prehistory as has already been gleaned from the Tabon Caves and continues to be immeasurably enriched by the Northern Palawan Palaeo-Prehistoric Archaeological Project. In a fitting start and finish it shall officially commence from the Field Station of the National Museum in Quezon and terminate on the Ille Cave Platform and Base Camp in the Dewil River Valley in New Ibahay, El Nido.

To be able to realistically give the foregoing a fair chance to succeed it shall involve professionals and students with background in archaeology, anthropology, history and photography. A book writing project is contemplated to leave behind a more lasting account and photographic documentation of the project.

Download the full project description
Download the itinerary (9-22 April)
Contact: db.galang [at] yahoo.com

University of Guam Archaeological Field School in Cebu, Philippines

noelbynature — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:37:22 +0000

Tired of your everyday routines at work? Looking for some archaeological experience? Got 5-6 weeks to spare next summer? The University of Guam, in collaboration with the University of the Philippines and University of San Carlos Kabilin Heritage Studies Center is conducting a field school in Cebu next year.

University of Guam Archaeological Field School in Cebu, Philippines
AN492: Archaeological Field Techniques
Summer 2011
(note: site best viewed using Firefox or Chrome. I am told that the page will not load properly if using IE)

The University of Guam, in collaboration with the Archaeological Studies Program-University of the Philippines, the San Carlos University, and the National Museum of the Philippines, is offering a summer archaeological field school. The field school will provide participants intensive training in archaeological site excavation, mapping, and artifact analysis and interpretation as well as training in landscape analysis. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students from any university, who will earn 6 University of Guam credits. The project is co-directed by Dr. Stephen Acabado, Assistant Professor, University of Guam, Dr. John Peterson, Associate Professor, University of Guam, Dr. Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Associate Professor, Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, and Prof. Jojo Bersales, University of San Carlos Kabilin Heritage Studies Center. Dr. Acabado and Dr. Peterson will serve as the UOG Instructors of Record.

For more details click here.

2010 Field School in Palawan, Philippines

noelbynature — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:55:24 +0000

There’s a field school to be conducted in Palawan, Philippines in April 2010, jointly conducted by the University of Washington and the University of the Philippines. Details of the cost, itenarary and registration can be found on this link or by clicking on the picture.