• This week on Southeast Asian Archaeology: rare bronze Mahoratuek drums surface in Thailand, gold-glazed terracotta helps redraw Vietnam’s Ho Citadel, and Aceh War “loot” gets a long-overdue digital reckoning.⠀
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  • Circuits, Ceramics, and Colonial Archives is out now 🏛️🌊📜 CNY/Tết (Year of the Horse) greetings + this week’s theme: heritage in a hurry—Angkor’s “high risk” Baksei Chamkrong, Sibonga church repairs post-Odette, and Indonesia’s 152-site revitalisation push. Read: https://bit.ly/3Mswq7G
  • Heritage isn’t just awe—it’s upkeep. This week: a historic building floor collapse at Siak Palace, Beng Mealea’s walkway repairs, Ponagar Tower’s arts show paused over losses.⠀
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  • Biases, Bones & Burāq — this week’s Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter is all about how small corrections can change big histories.⠀
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We’ve got four fresh research reads:⠀
 🐟 Neolithic expansion that looks a lot more “rice and fish” once recovery bias is taken seriously⠀
 📜 An illuminated Qur’an section from Java on dluwang (treebark paper), with clues that push it earlier than you might expect⠀
 🐀 Timor-Leste’s giant/large murids, measured in detail to track changing ecologies (and a late crash)⠀
 ⚱️ Ban Non Wat grave size and offerings, mapping a sharp spike—and then easing—of social distinction⠀
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And for a screen break: a small mention of PBS’s Angkor: Hidden Jungle Empire.⠀
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Read the full roundup here: https://bit.ly/45Gh2uN ⠀
 #Archaeology #SoutheastAsia #Heritage #Anthropology #Museums #History
  • This week in Southeast Asian Archaeology: Sulawesi just delivered a headline-grabbing ~67,800-year-old hand-stencil date, Huế’s Imperial Citadel restoration has revealed a trilingual astronomical mural, and Malaysia’s new Guar Kepah Archaeological Gallery opens with the “Penang Woman” at centre stage. Deep time, dynastic science, and fresh public heritage spaces—come catch up on the week’s stories.⠀
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  • New week, new reads: a “Southwestern Silk Road” model for amber into Han China, the biggest Austroasiatic genomic dataset yet (with Dvaravati/Angkor-era signals), plus rock art methods and fresh motifs from Malaysia and Laos. Molecules, motifs, and migration stories — all in one roundup.

Amber, Ancestry and Arty hands https://bit.ly/3LAK20c
  • New year, new (very full) newsletter From Java Man coming home to Jakarta to Khmer sculptures heading back to Cambodia and a bleak month on the Thai–Cambodian border, catch up on a whole month of Southeast Asian archaeology: https://bit.ly/4syuWJh
  • This week’s Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter is all about the invisible infrastructure of knowledge — the stuff behind the sites. We look at Cambodia’s push to access the late Emma Bunker’s notebooks as a potential roadmap to looted Khmer art, a Thanh Hóa village communal house where 47 imperial edicts were quietly stashed in bamboo tubes for centuries, and Jingdezhen’s “ceramic gene bank” in China, where millions of sherds and glaze recipes are treated like DNA for porcelain. From roof beams to databases, it’s a reminder that archives, records and lab data shape what we think we know about the past just as much as temples and shipwrecks do. Plus the usual mix of regional news, grants, jobs and heritage politics — link in bio/newsletter below.

https://bit.ly/3XIeV5h
  • Genomes point to a 60,000-year “long chronology” for the first settlers of Sahul, while new DNA links China’s hanging coffins to the modern Bo people. #southeastasianarchaeology
 
Read here: https://bit.ly/4a64D6z
  • Southeast Asia’s past is on tour this week — from Bangkok’s royal treasures in Beijing’s Palace Museum to Cham sculptures in Đà Nẵng, Khmer–Chinese exchanges in Phnom Penh, and 14th-century Temasek sherds greeting commuters in a Singapore MRT station. 

In the latest Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter, a look at how exhibitions are carrying the region’s history into train platforms, diplomatic halls and hands-on museum workshops, plus what this means for soft power, heritage policy and public archaeology. US readers will also spot a small Thanksgiving note of gratitude to the people and institutions who keep these stories alive.

Read the full issue and subscribe here: https://bit.ly/4oeZz2S 

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  • A Historiography of Settlement Archaeology in Southeast Asia, with Emphasis on the Pre-industrial State Formations by Gyles Iannone
  • Ocean Imperatives: conceptualizing shipping logistics and infrastructure for the study of maritime networks in Southeast Asia by Veronica Walker Vadillo
  • Forms of Government and local community participation in the management of cultural World Heritage sites in Southeast Asia by Vithaya Arporn
  • Cultural interaction between Vietnam and Southeast Asian nations in the 15th-16th centuries: examining ceramics from ancient shipwrecks being stored at the Museum of History in Ho Chi Minh City by Pham Ngoc Uyen
  • Digital Navigator on the Seas of the Selden Map of China: Sequential Least-Cost Path Analysis Using Dynamic Wind Data by Wesa Pertola
  • The Prevailing Art and Tradition of Intentional Dental Modification in Prehistoric Southeast Asia by Kathryn Purnell
  • The Still Unexplored Parts of Southeast Asian Archaeology: Colonial Archaeology Singapore by Sxuann Sim
  • Khao San Dam: the Archaeological Evidence of Burnt Rice Festival in Southern Thailand by Pakpadee Yukongdi
  • Before Bagan: Using Archaeological Data Sets to Assess the Traditional Historical Narrative by Scott Macrae, Kong Cheong, Gyles Iannone and Pyiet Phyo Kyaw
  • The Rock Art in Kinta Valley, West Malaysia: A synthesis by Chaw Yeh Saw and Hsiao Mei Goh
  • New Archaeological Discoveries: Gates and Turrets of 16th Burmese Royal Capital of Hamsavati by Thaw Zin Latt
  • A preliminary of Chinese ceramics in Champa archaeological sites by Alex Giang
  • A Study on the structure and significance of the north sanctuary at Western Prasat Top by Yuni Sato, Tamura Tomomi, Sugiyama Hiroshi, Lam Sopheak, Sok Keo Sovannara, Loeung Ravattey, Ros Visoth
  • The funeral cave of Laang Spean by Valery Zeitoun, Heng Sophady, Hubert Forestier
  • The Bronze age people of Ban Kao: A preliminary analysis of the human remains from Ban Ta Po archaeological site, western Thailand by Naruphol Wangthongchaicharoen, S. Duangsakul, P. Venunan, S. Lertwinitnun, S. Tubpenthai
  • The Mt. Popa Watershed and the Bronze-Iron Age of Bagan by Elizabeth Moore
  • After 30 years and during a Pandemic: Pottery Production and Distribution and Distribution in Bagacay, Talibon, Bohol, Central Philippines by Rhayan Gatbonton Melendres
  • Heritage Education in Myanmar by Su Su, Win Thant Win Shwin, Charlotte Galloway, Elizabeth Moore and Ohmmar Myo
  • As my father said: Traditional boatbuilding in Pasuruan, East Java by Agni Mochtar, Putri Taniardi and R. A. Ginanjar Purnawibawa and Shoim Abdul Aziz
  • Tangibility-Intangibility on UNESCO World Heritage Baroque Philippine Churches: the Spirit of Place and Its Collective Memory by Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja
  • Myinkaba village Bagan: The Resilience of Traditional Knowledge and Culture by Theint Theint Aung
  • Thai carpentry knowledge transmission: the development of traditional apprenticeship in a new context by Nichamon Hiranpruek
  • The Factors of Market Success of Contemporary Artists from Southeast Asia by Remy Jarry
  • Cosmos, Nature and the Spirit World: Aesthetic Manifestations in Southeast Asia by Victor R. Savage
  • The Series of Archeological Dances: A Historical Study and Dance Moves Recording with Labnotation by Dharakorn Chandnasaro
  • Musical Instruments on the 16th century bas reliefs of the North Gallery-East Wing of Angkor Wat : Dating and Significance by Arsenio Nicolas
  • Photography in Indonesian Classical Archaeology of 19th and Early 20th Century by Ahmad Kholdun
  • Old Burmese weights were not opium weights. They were weights. What else do we know about them? by Bob Hudson
  • Displaying “Religious Object” in the Context of Cultural Change and Social Distancing by Chung Pham
  • Creation and Innovation in Cultural Heritage Management in Plunturan Village, Pulung District, Ponorogo Regency Indonesian East Java Province towards Tourism Village by Ria Kusuma
  • Beyond the artefact: promoting technology by Cécile de Francquen
  • Indonesian Museum after New Regime Order: The Representation That Never Disappeared by Ayu Dipta Kirana and Fajar Aji Jiwandono
  • Geological Museum Innovation to Dealing with Covid-19 Pandemic by Ifan Yoga Pratama Suharyogi, Agustina Djafar, Rahajeng Ayu Permana Sari and Paradita Kenyo Arum Dewantoro
  • Reflections on the Pyinsaloha (five metals casting) in the Bagan and successive periods by Pwint Phyu Maung
  • Reflecting on an Unusual Depiction of the Birth of the Buddha from 12th Century Bagan by Su Latt Win
  • Symbols and Meaning of Prehistoric Rock Art in Thailand by Thippawan Wongadsapaiboon

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