SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog

Another bumper edition of Wednesday Rojak - well, because I’ve been missing the previous week again. But this week is choc-full of posts from Angkor, Borobudur and other archaeology sites from Southeast Asia. Here they are in no particular order:

photo credit: soham_pablo
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Not everything that is recovered from a shipwreck gets to become a museum piece. A Malaysian company has found a way to remake potsherds from Malaysian shipwrecks into jewelery. A similar story was published two years ago.

Treasures from the sea
The Star, 05 April 2008
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For anyone interested in underwater archaeology and the Southeast Asian ceramics trade, you might be interested in this talk at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore.

The Cargo of the East Indiaman Götheborg Shipwreck
02 Apr 2008
Wednesday, 7.00 pm
Discovery Room, ACM Empress Place
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Warang Petch writes in this feature for the Museum of Underwater Archaeology about students learning techniques to conduct archaeology underwater in Thailand.

Underwater Archaeology Training Project Hin Bush Shipwreck Site, Rayong, Thailand
Museum of Underwater Archaeology
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Jakarta’s Maritime Museum is set to reopen today after high tides in November forced the museum to close.

Maritime Museum set to officially reopen
Jakarta Post, 03 January 2008
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