• Indigenous Archaeology Georgian Style

    Updated: 2010-06-30 12:52:55

  • The Top Five Archaeological Bloggers

    Updated: 2010-06-29 00:00:18
    First a confession.  As an avid reader of all things archaeological, I love it when archaeologists lay down the trowel, clamber out of the trench, and venture into the public arena to talk sans jargon about what they are doing,  why they are doing it, and what kinds of trouble and/or joy they had along [...]

  • Government pledges $82 million for site preservation

    Updated: 2010-06-28 01:12:45
    The Vietnamese government has pledged US$82 million to help preserve the Con Son – Kiep Bac historical site in Hai Duong province. Gov’t puts $82 mil towards preserving historical site Saigon Giai Phong, 23 June 2010 A plan to restore, preserve, and promote the Con Son – Kiep Bac historical relic site in the northern [...]

  • Influential Myanmar anthropologist passes away

    Updated: 2010-06-24 01:11:36
    The Irrawady has an article on the recent passing of Dr. Nai Pan Hla, a cultural anthropologist who specialised in the Mon language and culture. Mon Cultural Anthropologist Passes Away The Irrawady, 21 June 2010 Dr. Nai Pan Hla, one of Burma’s most famous cultural anthropologists who spent his career researching and writing on Mon [...]

  • Prehistoric tools found at reservoir site

    Updated: 2010-06-23 01:46:53
    Prehistoric tools, estimated to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, have been discovered near the Son La Reservoir at Lai Chau Province in Vietnam. 4000-year-old antiques unearthed on riverbank Vietnam Net Bridge, 19 June 2010 A museum in Lai Chau has collected 18 stone and some terra-cotta items dating back 3000-4000 years ago along the Da [...]

  • Seven sculptures returned to Cambodia

    Updated: 2010-06-22 01:33:11
    The US Government returns seven Cambodian sculptures that were seized in a raid at Los Angeles. United States Returns 7 Stolen Ancient Cambodian Sculptures artdaily.org, 17 June 2010 The United States returned seven sculptures from the great Angkorian era on Thursday that had been smuggled out of Cambodia. Cambodian Buddhist monks blessed the artifacts during [...]

  • New sites added to Thailand’s heritage list

    Updated: 2010-06-21 01:49:17
    25 sites in Thailand, covering temples, palaces and a rock art site, will be included in Thailand’s list of areas of historical interest. Temples, palaces to be listed Bangkok Post, 16 June 2010 The Fine Arts Department plans to register 25 sites as areas of historical interest nationwide this year. Most of the sites are [...]

  • SOS for Krabi

    Updated: 2010-06-18 15:26:00
    Liz Price alerted me to this website raising awareness of an illegal quarry in Krabi, Thailand. The limestone hills of Thailand contain several important prehistoric sites, including rock art and the Lang Longrien shelter but many of these hills have yet to be explored. The attention of “sosKrabi” is focused today on a quarry which [...]

  • Fossil finds reveal range of pleistocene wildlife

    Updated: 2010-06-18 01:53:05
    Over 500 fossils have been found at the Ma Tuyen Cave in Lao Cai province of Vietnam, representing at least 12 animal species including bears, elephants, horses and rhinos. 10,000 year old elephant teeth discovered in Lao Cai Saigon Giai Phong, 12 June 2010 Twelve animal species found in Lao Cai cave Viet Nam News, [...]

  • Burnt rice in Hanoi may date to 3,000 years old

    Updated: 2010-06-17 15:22:40
    Rice paddies found in Hanoi, estimated to be 3,000 years old, will be sent for dating in Japan to confirm. “3000-year-old” paddies to be tested for date Vietnam Net Bridge, 09 June 2010 While excavating a historical site named Thanh Den in Hanoi’s Me Linh district, archaeologists discovered many burnt paddies in a layer of [...]

  • Perak seeks WHS listing for Lenggong Valley

    Updated: 2010-06-17 01:57:17
    The Malaysian state of Perak has announced its intent to get the Lenggong Valley on the map as a World Heritage Site. Many archaeological discoveries have been discovered in this region, from prehistoric tools, skeletal burials and rock art, which hint that the valley may have been inhabited as far back as 1.8 million years. [...]

  • From blimp to page

    Updated: 2010-06-14 04:05:06
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  • Documenting the Damage

    Updated: 2010-06-11 03:34:42
    : The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World About Websites PKAP Website William Caraher's Home Page University of North Dakota's Website PatrowVisual PKAP Documentary in RealPlayer SQUINCH Scott Moore's Home Page David Pettegrew's Home Page Archaeology News Recent Headlines EKAS Home Ocean Roads Promotions Bill's bookmarks on del.icio.us Categories Academia Archaeology Australiana Books Byzantium Conferences Current Affairs David Pettegrew Departmental History at UND Early Christian Baptisteries Elwyn Robinson's Autobiography Emerging Cypriot Grand Forks Notes Korinthian Matters Late Antiquity Medieval and Post Medieval Greece Interest Group of the AIA Mediterranean Archaeology in North Dakota North Dakotiana Notes From Athens Popular Archaeology Public History Punk Archaeology

  • Cleaning Time

    Updated: 2010-06-10 03:20:46
    : The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World About Websites PKAP Website William Caraher's Home Page University of North Dakota's Website PatrowVisual PKAP Documentary in RealPlayer SQUINCH Scott Moore's Home Page David Pettegrew's Home Page Archaeology News Recent Headlines EKAS Home Ocean Roads Promotions Bill's bookmarks on del.icio.us Categories Academia Archaeology Australiana Books Byzantium Conferences Current Affairs David Pettegrew Departmental History at UND Early Christian Baptisteries Elwyn Robinson's Autobiography Emerging Cypriot Grand Forks Notes Korinthian Matters Late Antiquity Medieval and Post Medieval Greece Interest Group of the AIA Mediterranean Archaeology in North Dakota North Dakotiana Notes From Athens Popular Archaeology Public History Punk Archaeology

  • A Positive Note from the Getty

    Updated: 2010-06-09 18:14:51
    I received a press release a few days ago announcing that the Getty Museum was now displaying a 5th-century B.C. krater, a vessel used for mixing wine and water, on loan from the Agrigento regional museum in Sicily. If you’ve followed the “antiquities wars” closely over the past years, you’ll understand the importance of this. [...]

  • Could Google Earth Help Us Stop Looting?

    Updated: 2010-06-04 00:25:47
    This is a good news story that began with some exceedingly grim news. This grim news came to light in the late spring of 2003, after the dust had begun settling from the  invasion of Iraq and archaeologists began taking stock of the country’s looted archaeological sites.   To measure the severity of the problem and [...]

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