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Wednesday Rojak #55 – The Hobbit Symposium edition

Last week, the Stony Brook University in New York hosted a one-day symposium at the Turkana Basin Institute entitled Hobbits in a Haystack: Homo floresiensis and human evolution. In this edition of rojak, we’ll be focusing on some of the buzz from the symposium. photo credit: ideonexus

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Wednesday Rojak #54 – an all-Cambodian edition

We’ve got two small posts to feature in today’s rojak, both about Cambodia, and both courtesy of Alison in Cambodia.

The website of Shawn Fehrenbach, who just completed his MA thesis on the “Traditions of Ceramic Technology: An Analysis of the Assemblages from Angkor Borei, Cambodia“. While Alison herself reflects some new literature about the [...]

Wednesday Rojak #54: the end of the (archaeology) world edition

Robots taking over us fleshling archaeologists? Climate change destroying archaeological sites? Yes! It’s true! And more! In this week’s edition of rojak.

photo credit: sflovestory

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Wednesday Rojak #53 – Lego and archaeology

This edition of rojak is an eclectic mix of tantalizing speculations about the hobbit’s role in linguistics, videos from Java and lego archaeology.

photo credit: kennymatic

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Wednesday Rojak #52: The Peking Man is old edition

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

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Wednesday Rojak #51: Churches, Temples and Circular Earthworks

This week in Rojak we feature churches in the Philippines, temples in Java and get a bird’s eye view of some circular earthworks in Cambodia. photo credit: Georg Wittberger

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Wednesday Rojak #50: The Cambodian Dinosaur edition

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 [...]

Wednesday Rojak #48

Because of all the holiday traveling (Christmas, New Year, and Chinese New Year) and fieldwork, it’s been nearly two months since the last time I posted a rojak. I’ve got quite a fair bit collected over the last few weeks, so without further ado, here are some of the interesting blogs and stories about archaeology [...]

Wednesday Rojak #47

And now, your weekly dose of archaeological snippets taken from the blogosphere. photo credit: zhaffsky

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Wednesday Rojak #46

While I’m at the tail end of the World Rock Art course, I’ve also real salad of posts from all Indonesia and Cambodia to feature in this week’s rojak. photo credit: ideonexus

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