Hong Kong’s Bronze Age rock carvings
via South China Morning Post, 19 Februrary 2021: I've known about this cluster of rock art in Hong Kong for ...
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 tale behind the world’s oldest known cave painting
via The Straits Times, 25 January 2020: ST carried a feature on the discovery of the 45,000-year-old pig painting in ...
[Paper] Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi
via Science Advances, 13 January 2021: If the headline sounds familiar, it's because the 'oldest' rock art keeps getting found ...
New issue of the Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology published
Vol. 44 (2020) of JIPA was recently published, with a number of Open Access papers related to Southeast Asia.
Sulawesi Hunting Scene discovery makes Science’s list of breakthroughs in 2020
via Science, 18 December 2020: The 43,900-year-old hunting scene from Sulawesi makes it in Science's top 10 list of breakthroughs ...
[Paper] Rock art and long-distance prehistoric exchange behavior: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
via Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 08 December 2020: A new paper by Tsang et al. provides a rare ...
[Paper] Faces in the Stone: Further Finds of Anthropomorphic Engravings Suggest a Discrete Artistic Tradition Flourished in Timor-Leste in the Terminal Pleistocene
via Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 29 September 2020: New rock engraving sites discovered in East Timor.
Southeast Asian Archaeology from a Rock Art Perspective (with annotations)
My recent talk with the Friends of the Museum Singapore about how rock art fits into our understanding of Southeast ...
The magical returning menhir of Tutari
via Tempo, 30 November 2020: Story in Indonesian about the Tutari Megalithic site, and an urban legend of how someone ...
[Talk] Southeast Asian Archaeology from a Rock Art Perspective
Next Friday, I'll also be giving a talk with the Singapore Friends of the Museum and the Asian Civilisations Museum ...
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