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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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. [...] 
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 [...] I’ll be blogging sporadically this week, seeing how I’m at the University of Nottingham campus in KL for the World Rock-art course. It’s an intensive, 5-day course that started yesterday (Sunday) all the way to Thursday, covering theories and methodologies about rock art in all its forms – directly relevant to my field of study. [...] Students interested in the rock art course conducted by the University of Nottingham @ KL might be interested in making use of the new subsidised rates for ASEAN members – actually, more than just ASEAN, see the full list here. [...] While I’m nost supposed to blog about about my ongoing research, I suppose a brief overview wouldn’t hurt. Here’s what I’ll be researching for the next couple of years – the rock art site of Gua Tambun in Perak. Earlier this week, I visited the site with my supervisor and some colleagues at the centre [...] |
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