SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog

Remember last year’s study about the Gallus gallus and how they proved the Polynesians crossed over into the Americas? A new study published this week seems to contradict that claim.

Chicken Bone Spurs Debate Over Americas’ First Visitors
National Geographic, 28 July 2008
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The upcoming World Rock Art course scheduled to be held at the end of the year in Malaysia is offering a discounted rate for early registrants of ₤675 (including accommodation, lunches and refreshments) if you register before 1 August. The amount is still quite steep for those of us in Asia, so Barry Lewis, the project officer at Trent & Peak Archaeology of the University of Nottingham has asked all interested parties to email him so that he can get an idea of the level of interest - the more people who are interested in the course, the lower the cost will go. So, email him at Barry.Lewis@nottingham.ac.uk

You can download a copy of the flyer here, or by clicking on the picture.

Related books:
- Introduction to Rock Art Research
- Handbook of Rock Art Research
- Rock art and posterity: Conserving, managing and recording rock art : proceedings of symposium M, “Conservation and site management” and symposium E, “Recording … Darwin in 1988 (Occasional AURA publication)
- World Rock Art (Conservation and Cultural Heritage Series)

Mike Morwood, one of the discoverers of the Flores hobbit, is attempting to locate more dimunitive humans in Australia’s Northern Territory - but are there really hobbits to be found, or is this just a mountain out of a molehill?

Hobbit relative ‘live in NT’
Northern Territory News, 27 May 2008
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Yes, I’m back from a really short holiday in Cambodia and I’ll be posting pictures and accounts in time to come - right now, I’ve got over 300 photographs to plough through and it’ll at least take the weekend to sort out. In the meantime, I’ll be posting the rest of the archaeology news from Southeast Asia that came up this wee, so watch this space.

Sorry for the dearth in updates for the past week, folks - yes, it has been a newsy week but I’ve been away for a short holiday in Malaysia. News updates will resume shortly, along with backdated news updates.

*teaser*: I’ll also be working on the occasional seaarch podcast, the first one coming out hopefully sometime next week!