![This week in Southeast Asian Archaeology: Prambanan gets some renewed attention, Phimai Black pottery surfaces at Mun Bon Dam, and I’m taking a short break next week.⠀
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The featured stories look at the new Indonesia–India conservation project at Prambanan, focusing on the temple complex’s ruined perwara shrines, and a striking Late Prehistoric find in northeast Thailand: a remarkably complete Phimai Black vessel discovered as water levels fell at Mun Bon Dam.⠀
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Temples, pottery, reservoirs, and a little scheduled rest. Back again on 27 July.⠀
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The featured stories look at the new Indonesia–India conservation project at Prambanan, focusing on the temple complex’s ruined perwara shrines, and a striking Late Prehistoric find in northeast Thailand: a remarkably complete Phimai Black vessel discovered as water levels fell at Mun Bon Dam.⠀
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Temples, pottery, reservoirs, and a little scheduled rest. Back again on 27 July.⠀
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Read this week’s newsletter: [link in bio]⠀
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#SoutheastAsianArchaeology #Archaeology #Heritage #Prambanan #Thailand #Indonesia #Cambodia #Vietnam #CulturalHeritage #Substack")
Minister calls upon citizens to help preserve ancient temples
via Khmer Times, 11 June 2019: Cambodian Culture Minister made the comments at the World Monuments Fund 30th anniversary celebration...
Fourth ancient artefact handed over to Takeo museum this year
via Phnom Penh Post, 11 June 2019: Phnom Da-era Buddha statue unearthed by a local villager and handed to the...
Thai Fine Arts Department signs MOU with Western Asutralian Museum to preserve shipwreck
via Thaipost.net, 13 June 2019: The Thai Fine Arts Department signs a MOU with the Western Australian Museum to preserve...
Stone basins discovered in Lao PDR
via Lao Daily, 06 June 2019: Discovery of stone basins/structures in Champasak province. Article is in Lao.
[Talk] Homo luzonensis: A new species of hominin from the Late Pleistocene of northern Luzon, Philippines
Readers in Canberra may be interested in this talk by Dr Armand Mijares on the recent homo luzonensis find.
Police on the hunt for Anlong Roth tomb raiders
via Khmer Times, 04 June 2019: Reports of illegal looting of graves in Banteay Meanchey province.
[Talk] Dharmakīrti of Kedah: The life, work and troubled times of Sriwijaya’s last philosopher
Readers in Singapore may be interested in this lecture about an 11th century sage from Kedah.
Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology award for early career Southeast Asian archaeologists
Third round of the ISEAA Early Career award. Deadline for submissions is 1 December 2019.
More mysterious jars of the dead unearthed in Laos
via ANU/Eureka News, 06 June 2019: (re?)Discovery of 15 more jar sites in Xiengkhouang province.
Chanthaburi: A trip with a difference
via Bangkok Post, 06 June 2019: A travel feature on Chanthaburi province in Thailand.
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