What did ancient humans do? 147 Archeology 2012-02-08T20:06:44 Science Guy barry.david.adams@gmail.com SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog 2012-02-08T14:03:11

Keeping up with the World War II theme, a feature about a group of Malaysians who spend their time searching the jungles for aircraft wrecks from the war. Malaya Historical Group, Channel NewsAsia 20120206 Malaysian jungle adventurers solve WWII mysteries AFP, via Channel NewsAsia, 06 February 2012 They trek for days through crocodile-infested [...]

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var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(1.2975325, 103.85423029999993); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7230"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); The National Library of Singapore will host an exhibition featuring the finds from a World [...]

dfdb79c135cbba7a6edec22bfcaa63d4 Ritmeyer Archaeological Design 2012-02-08T00:50:18

Avigad would be pleased! Yesterday we received Vols. IV and V of the final reports of the Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, Conducted by Nahman Avigad 1969-1982. The first four volumes were edited by Hillel Geva … Continue reading →

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var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(9.5995837, 124.01397889999998); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7225"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); Prehistoric remains and earthenware have been discovered in a cave in Bohol province in Central [...]

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var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-7.428087999999999, 111.01763400000004); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7219"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); Three fifteenth-century Majapahit statues go missing in Sragen, East Java. The story underlines the lack [...]

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var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(33.5220496, -86.80999020000002); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7206"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); The largest ever exhibition on Vietnamese ceramics is now on display at the Birmingham Museum [...]

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Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has met with Oxford professor Stephen Oppenheimer whose book Eden in the East proposes an alternative theory to the peopling of the Pacific to the conventional out-of-Taiwan model, based on the rising and falling of sea levels in the early Holocene. SBY meets with controversial Oxford professor Jakarta Post, 02 [...]

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Readers may be interested in the upcoming International Committee for University Museums and Collections 12th Annual Meeting to be held at the National University of Singapore this October. Paper proposals are open until May. UMAC2012 Singapore Encountering Limits: The University Museum 10-12 October 2012 Download the Flyer here.

89aae627ef4dcd1e92323837322b2538 SEAArch - The Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog 2012-02-03T06:23:19

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ce851805fbe541a845bbf65ca0910578 Ritmeyer Archaeological Design 2012-02-02T13:38:01

Apologies for not having blogged a while, but I was busy with projects. For those of you who had sad thoughts about my absence, these are unfounded, as this picture shows: Received an invitation marking the 20th anniversary of the death … Continue reading →

7d98b28bb7c42514439281fcdd59bec8 Ravenscroft Blog 2012-01-16T01:21:29

Posted byKatie Sikes Our student archaeologists are quickly developing their professional field skills, and are becoming more familiar and more comfortable with our excavation methods. They can now accurately identify some of the most common artifac...

89e171903158ac8d3fe790f8234ea94d Ravenscroft Blog 2012-01-16T01:21:25

Posted by Katie Sikes For the majority of this year’ weblog posts, we aim to give our readers an inside look at the experience of participating in an excavation by regularly including a variety of perspectives from students, many of whom...

a07ac57b2d8c971f9a222fce333eb5d4 Ritmeyer Archaeological Design 2011-12-13T13:41:09

As announced in a previous post, this coming Thursday the symposium on Jesus and the Temple will commence in Boca Raton. It will be my pleasant duty to give the opening lecture, entitled  ”Imagining the Temple Early Jews Knew”. Here are … Continue reading →

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