Friday, November 14th, 2008 Posted in Vietnam | No Comments »
The Phia Mun cave in Tuyen Quang Province has yielded artefacts dating as far back as 7,000 years. The excavation, which started last year, has just completed its second phase. Phia ... Read more..Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Vietnam | No Comments »
A neolithic cave site, dating as far back as 10,000 BCE has been discovered in northeastern province of Cao Bang. Among the finds are stone tools and red minerals used ... Read more..Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
The coverage of the Neolithic skeletons unearthed in Sarawak continues... (Read my fuller account here). Malaysian archaeologists find complete Neolithic skeletons AFP, via The Nation (Pakistan), 19 September 2008 Neolithic skeletons found: report SBS, ... Read more..Friday, September 19th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
As expected, most of the Malaysian papers carried reports about yesterday's press conference on the excavation of six skeletons from Gua Kain Hitam in Sarawak and Pulau Kelumpang in Perak. ... Read more..Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia | 3 Comments »
This morning, the Centre for Archaeology Research, Malaysia at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in Penang unveiled two sets of burials from the Niah cave complex in Sarawak and Pulau Kelumpang ... Read more..Thursday, August 7th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
The Sarawak Museum and Universiti Sains Malaysia recently announced their discovery of eight 3,000-year-old burials located near Miri in Sarawak. Ancient Burial Site Discovered In Batu Niah Bernama, 01 August 2008 Ancient burial ... Read more..Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Philippines | 1 Comment »
When I was younger, I remember reading in a Filipino children's book that the Filipinos were made up of a migratory Malay population. I didn't think much of it then ... Read more..