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Stone tools, thought to be from the palaeolithic, have been discovered in northern Sri Lanka. They seem to be excavated 30 years ago, but studies had been halted because of conflict. Palaeolithic Period stone weapons found in Jaffna Sti Lanka Daily News, 03 October 2011 [...] 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, [...] In what seems to be the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, an ancient road has been discovered in the Hoabinhian site of the Xom Trai Cave dating back to 8,000 – 9,000 years. Sadly, the story on VietNamNet doesn’t display any images of the road, but it indicates the presence of worn-out stones. [...] From the Quaternary Dating Laboratory, Roskilde University, Denmark. The deadine is in two weeks! Applications are invited for the above Ph.D scholarship, which will be based at the Quaternary Dating Laboratory, Roskilde University, Denmark and affiliated to GESS (the Graduate Programme in Environmental Stress Studies). The scholarship is for a period of 3 years and [...] A report on the collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Ban Chiang Project and Laos’ Department of Museums and Archaeology and the results of the last few year’s work of surveying the area around the Mekong River for archaeological potential. [...] Monash University unveils an interactive map called Sahul Time, named after the ancient landmass of Australia and Papua New Guinea, that shows you the lay of the land at different points in time over the last 100,000 years. While the main focus is of course on Australia, what’s really nifty is the inclusion of much of island Southeast Asia, which would provide anyone with an interest about the prehistory of the region to see how much larger the land mass must have been – and possibly how many archaeological sites now remain underwater. [...] A new study on the wrist bones recovered from the homo floresiensis assembly adds extra weight to our Hobbit from Flores being an entirely new species rather than a sick, deformed human. There are a few other stories popping up today so stay tuned for more insights! It’s a really busy day at work, so hopefully I can post them all up by the end of the day. [...] The ANU E Press, the digital imprint of the Australian National University is offering a range of scholarly texts from the ANU academic community – for free. These three books in particular are available for download which would be of interest to readers of this site: Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago, The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, and The Austronesians. [...] 08 June 2007 (Viet Nam Net Bridge) – More details released about the 4,000-year-old-skeleton found in Tuyen Quang province. The oval-shaped grave is unusual for the period and the artefacts unearthed are found to be similar to those of the Hoa Binh culture 2,000 years prior. The archaeologists are racing against time as the site [...] A 4,000-year-old skeleton has been found buried in a cave in the mountainous Tuyen Quang Province. [...] |
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