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Any readers playing Minecraft? I don’t play it myself (I hardly have any time to play games on my phone for that matter!), but if you’re playing the award-winning game of construction and creativity, you might be interested in this minecraft project to build Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat Minecraft Full details here. [...] I mentioned working on another web project. Over the past couple of years I’ve been thinking more and more about the craft of photography in the practice of archaeology. Mostly because I work with rock art where digital photography has become the most common (and sometimes the only) way of recording them. So I’ve set [...] In what is probably the first of its kind for the region, Singapore has just launched a new online role-playing game called the World of Temasek, which lets players immerse themselves into 14th century Singapore. The game is free to play (registration needed) and is supposed to be historically accurate. I’ve signed up for an [...] Alison in Cambodia has just started a new page on her blog tracking archaeological projects in Cambodia. Check it out here. Just wanted to share a couple of sites that I’ve come across in recent times: Mobile Arch Part of my pondering over whether I should get an iPad (or wait for the second generation one), Mobile Arch is a blog about the use of mobile technology with archaeology. The site’s quite young, but it promises [...] Been updating the weblinks over the weekend, here are some new websites you might be interested that can be found in the resources page: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA) – The ABIA Project is a global network of scholars co-operating on an annotated bibliographic database for publishers covering South and [...] Just a quick link to Colleen’s poll at Middle Savagery, where she’s taking a poll from archaeological professionals on whether people still use film photography for archaeology (or you could go directly to the poll here). The poll got me thinking about the amount of photography I’ve had to do for my research. At the [...] It’s not often you hear archaeology news from Laos, no thanks in part because of the language barrier. But interested readers might be pleased to read about the ongoing work by the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project team, where Amy Ellsworth, Digital Media Developer of the University of Pennsylvania Museum is blogging about the excavations at Tham [...] The Peking Man (homo erectus, same as the Java Man) made the news last week for being older than previously thought – but what happened to his bones? This and more in this week’s Rojak. photo credit: ideonexus [...] Rojak turns 50! Not that it has been 50 weeks since I first started this since I’ve missed quite a few weeks due to travels or sheer forgetfulness -it’s more like one and a half years. This week, we feature quite a few stories from Southeast Asia like the Cambodian dinosaur found on the walls [...] |
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