July 29th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Exhibitions, Museums, Rock Art, Vietnam No Comments »
The petroglyphs at Sapa will be featured in a special exhibition at the Vasterrbotten Museum in Sweden, to commemorate 40 years of Vietnam-Sweden relations.
Sapa ancient carved rock field to be introduced in Sweden
Vietnam Net Bridge, 28 July 2009
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June 26th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in General Archaeology, Personal, Rock Art 1 Comment »
There’s an amusing story on BBC from Australia about wallabies being the explanation for crop circles. In the opium farms of Tasmania, wallabies who jump through the fences and eat the poppy end up getting “as high as a kite and going around in circles”, resulting in the familiar crop circles that we love to attribute to beings from outer space. Amusing as it sounds, crop circles, like rock art, can be classified as a type of landscape art, and the narcotic antics of these marsupials show us one possibility behind the rock art left by ancient peoples.
photo credit: Wm Jas
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June 9th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia, Rock Art No Comments »
This year’s World Rock Art course jointly organised by Trent & Peak Archaeology of the University of Nottingham and Universiti Sains Malaysia is going to be slightly different from last year’s: it’s going to be a full-fledged field school, with a substantial portion spent in the Lenggong Valley of Perak (home of the Perak Man and prehistory central in Peninsular Malaysia) working on actual rock art. It’s a unique opportunity to get your hands on some real-world experience in rock art, archaeology and Malaysia.
March 30th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia, Museums, Rock Art No Comments »
The newly-opened history gallery at the Sarawak Museum takes visitors to Sarawak’s past from the 7th century to today. I was particularly taken with the rock carving of the man on the boulder – whose name escapes me now.
Relics from the past at the Sarawak museum
The Star, 26 March 2009
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March 25th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in General Archaeology, Personal, Rock Art 1 Comment »
No rojak today (haven’t found anything interesting enough this past week), so I thought I’d post a few thoughts about my current research. The warhol-esque image represents a major part of my work, the digital image analysis and my attempts to re-present the rock art into meaningful bits of information.
January 19th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia, Personal, Rock Art 5 Comments »
Well, more closer to 12 days. My first two weeks of January was spent documenting the rock art of Gua Tambun, in a limestone mountain just outside the city of Ipoh, the capital of Perak in Peninsular Malaysia. This documentation and research project is the main focus of my MA thesis at Universiti Sains Malaysia.
The field crew: Nick, Suresh, Velat, Dr Stephen, me
December 8th, 2008 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia, Rock Art 6 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, I got the chance to attend the World Rock Art course at the University of Nottingham’s Kuala Lumpur campus, an intensive five-day introduction to the rock art traditions from around the world. Most of our days were spent in the (extremely cold) lecture rooms of the university’s branch office in the city centre, but one of the highlights of the course was a field trip to Gua Tambun, the site I’m researching.
(my bad. i had inadvertedly got only half of Dr George Nash's face in this shot)
