3,500-year-old pumpkin spice? Archaeologists find earliest use of nutmeg as a food
via UW News, 03 October 2018: Nutmeg residues found in 3,500-year-old ceramics at Pulau Ay in Indonesia.
Tag: lithics
News reports and information about stone tools and archaeological lithics in Southeast Asia
See also: lithophone, paleolithic, neolithic, hoabinhian
[Paper] The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis
New Open Access paper in the Journal of Human Evolution examines the distribution stone artefacts and faunal remains of Liang ...
Hominin occupation in China from 2.1 million years ago
Of potential interest for Southeast Asia: 2.1 million-year-old stone tools discovered in China pushes back the dates of hominins outside ...
Misteri Mata Panah dan Kerangka Manusia di Maros
via Mongo Bay, 09 June 2018: The archaeology of Makassar and the prehistoric Toalian culture. Article is in Bahasa. ...
Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago
Very exciting news out of the Philippines today, a paper published in Nature describes the discovery of stone tools and ...
A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi
A new paper on PLOS One describes stone tools finds from the rock shelter of Leang Burung in Sulawesi, dating ...
German police hand over antiquities to Vietnam
via Vietnam Plus, 30 March 2018: The Vietnamese Embassy in Germany on March 29 received antiques which Berlin police seized ...
Archaeologists uncover ancient trading network in Vietnam
A new paper in Antiquity reveals the circulation and manufacture of stone tools during the Neolithic in Southern Vietnam. The ...
![[Lecture] A Mauryan–Śunga Period Ringstone: 3rd-1st Century BCE, found in Peninsular Thailand](https://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1708Ringstone1.jpg)
[Lecture] A Mauryan–Śunga Period Ringstone: 3rd-1st Century BCE, found in Peninsular Thailand
Readers in Bangkok may be interested in this lecture at the Siam Society on 24 August 2017 by Anna Bennett. ...
Humans occupied northern Australia 65,000 years ago: What does this mean for SEA?
An exciting paper was published last week in Nature and received a fair bit of media coverage: dating from the ...
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