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Today marks the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, celebrated by many Chinese communities living in Southeast Asia and also known as Tet in Vietnam. It is now the year of the Dragon! Dragon design from the Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple, Penang Happy new year! [...] I’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties over the past week and it’s taking me much longer to resolve. Check back on Monday! The site’s been under a spambot attack over the weekend, so apologies if you’ve been getting notification emails over posts that you may have been following. I’ve cleaned up the spam and put in some measures to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Sorry for the lack of updates this week dear readers, I am taking a little holiday in Vietnam. I hope to be back with the news sometime next week. Happy Holidays (and Christmas, if you celebrate it)! Research on the oldest skeletal remains found in peninsular Malaysia is rounding up, although the gender of the skeleton still remains unknown. There’s also the curious intention to put the remains back to the site it was found – I don’t know if this is a reburial or a special holding centre. Research on oldest [...] The Observer’s Science Editor has an update on the latest developments in Hobbit research – and how they might have been the first species out of Africa than the homo erectus. Of course, the usual caveats apply: future research will probably confirm or refute this hypothesis. photo credit: Rosino How a hobbit is rewriting [...] Ahem. It seems I am enjoying my Christmas holiday a little too much and it’s a little difficult to sit at a computer for any period of time this month. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers of SEAArch, I’ll resume news-blogging in the new year. I’ve written briefly about digital storage and preservation before because it’s been a personal concern of mine for some time. The Digging Digitally weblog has recently pointed to a meeting by the Library of Congress entitled “Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Preservation”. With the presentations by various practitioners and industry leaders uploaded online. Check them [...] sorry for the lack of updates folks, I’ve decided to take an extended break for what is already a holiday week here in Malaysia. That, and an unexpected resort stay doesn’t help too! I’ll be back posting archaeology news and announcements on Monday. Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all Muslim readers out there! Noel A literature foundation in Surakarta has announced the digitizing a quarter of the 6,000 ancient manuscripts and books in their possession – with the entire collection to be completed by the end of the year. The founder of this initiative, John Paterson, was in the news last week when he said that he was returning [...] |
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