This special double-issue on the deep history of rice in Asia has just appeared in print, with a number of contributions deriving from the multi-disciplinary international symposium “Rice and Language Across Asia: Crops, Movement, and Social Change,” recently held at Cornell University, in Ithaca, on Sept. 22-25, 2011 (see http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/riceandlanguage/). The authors come from a [...]
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The Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage was held earlier this month in Manila, and the proceedings are now online hosted by the Museum of Underwater Archaeology. You’ll find a number of papers related to underwater and maritime archaeology including one bit of research I was involved in on the rock art of Tham [...] A study published earlier this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests an earlier arrival of the dingo to Australia, through a mainland Southeast Asia route instead of island Southeast Asia. photo credit: Tom Purves Dingoes originated in China 18,000 years ago Australian Geographic, 13 September 2011 Mitochondrial DNA data indicate [...] Once again reviving the debate over the nature of the Flores hominid, a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compares skull scans from various samples, including microcephalic humans and other hominids, and suggest that the H. floresiensis is a microcephalic human rather than a separate species.
The latest Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistoric Association (BIPPA) has just been released online, featuring a number of papers that were presenting in Hanoi in 2009. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Vol 30, 2010 Description from the website: The Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal. [...] Thanks to funding by the University of Hawai’i Press, articles from Asian Perspectives, one of the leading journals in Asian and the Pacific archaeology will be available online and ready for download at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa Scholarspace. You will be able to search and download articles published from 1955 right up to [...] Something I discovered while surfing the resources at my library. Universiti Sains Malaysia keeps an open access repository of research by its staff and students, including those of the archaeology department. A good number of the papers are in Malay, but nothing that a little Google Translate can’t handle. The news is abuzz today as two papers published in this week’s Nature lend support to the theory that the Hobbit represents a new species. One study of the Hobbit’s foot reveals that while the hobbit was bipedal, it did not walk like humans and probably could not run very well. Another study compared the [...] 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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