New in the Online Lecture Library (May 2021 update)
Five new lectures for this month's update, linked below and in the searchable Online Lecture Library page. If you have ...
Tag: rock art
News reports and information about the rock art of Southeast Asia, defined as artificial markings (carvings, drawings or paintings) on natural rock surfaces.
See also: petroglyphs, Austronesian Painting Tradition
The Indonesian Island of Sulawesi Is an Evolutionary Puzzle
via Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021: Sulawesi's role in understanding ancient migration routes to Australia.
[Paper] First Directly Dated Rock Art in Southeast Asia and the Archaeological Implications
via Radiocarbon, 30 April 2021: This is the first time we have radiocarbon dates from rock art in Southeast Asia, ...
[Paper] The effects of climate change on the Pleistocene rock art of Sulawesi
via Nature Scientific Reports, 13 May 2021: A paper by Huntley et al. on how the oldest rock art in ...
Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi
via Sapiens, 27 April 2021: A retired anthropologist revisits the cave paintings in Sulawesi, known to be some of the ...
New archaeological sites discovered in Koh Lanta Bay
via the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, 26 March 2021: I was part of this team that surveyed ...
What the Oldest Known Cave Painting Reveals About Early Humans (and What It Doesn’t)
via Discover Magazine, 17 April 2021: A feature on the recent discovery of ancient rock art in Sulawesi and contextualising ...
[Talk] From Prehistoric to Historic: The Rock Art of Gua Toh Semelah, Kinta Valley, Perak
Readers may be interested in this talk by Saw Chaw Yeh on 30 April, on some new rock art in ...
Hunt on for bikers who damaged Krabi cave
via Bangkok Post, 24 March 2021: A bunch of bikers decided to use a designated historical cave and rock art ...
Magellan’s rock in Homonhon vandalized
via CNN Philippines, 18 March 2021: Some historical carvings are so old and significant that they become a form of ...
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