Lost bones, a mass grave and war wrecks plundered off Indonesia
Via The Guardian, 28 Feb 2018: Following on the trail of the looted war grave shipwrecks from Indonesian waters and ...
Tag: Bones
News and information about skeletal remains in Southeast Asia, including bone artifacts and animal bones.
See: skull, mandible, bioarchaeology
Discovery of world’s oldest funerary fish hooks by ANU archaeologists
via Heritage Daily, 12 December 2017: 12,000-year-old fish hooks found in a burial in Alor Island, Indonesia. Archaeologists from the ...
Skeletons from possible ancient city exposed by riverbank erosion
via Coconuts Yangon, 08 December 2017 Skeletons, urns containing pieces of bones, and the remains of a building were unearthed ...
Can Rat Bones Solve an Island Mystery?
via Sapiens, 30 Nov 2017: Homo floresiensis thrived on the island of Flores for thousands of years—and then vanished. One ...
Ancient skulls see light of day
via Khmer Times, 30 October 2017: Two human skulls more than 3,000 years old have gone on display in a ...
Papua New Guinea skull ‘world’s oldest tsunami victim’
via AFP-New Straits Times, 26 October 2017: A 6,000-year-old skull found in Papua New Guinea is likely the world’s oldest-known ...
The struggle to understand the Hobbit
via Cosmos, 27 September 2017: The discovery of Homo floresiensis in 2003 threw up many questions about the history of ...
‘We’ve found the missing 20,000 years’: crucial piece in human migration puzzle
via Sydney Morning Herald, 20 August 2017: An interview with Dr Kira Westaway from the University of Wollonggong and the ...
Sacred Karen elephant tusks stolen
Bangkok Post, 10 June 2017: Authorities are investigating the theft of centuries-old elephant tusks belonging to a Karen community in ...
Following an ancient trail
Bangkok Post, 6 June 2017: Thailand has been the centre of the international archaeological community recently after a published report ...
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