Dr Noel Hidalgo Tan curates archaeology news about Southeast Asia. All opinions in my personal capacity.
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This week in Southeast Asian archaeology:
🇻🇳 New finds at Hải Vân Pass, including a possible 8th-century Cham sculpture
🇮🇩 Sasak heritage meets MotoGP
🇸🇬 Singapore's revamped History Gallery
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This week in Southeast Asian Archaeology: Indonesia’s changing practice of bioarchaeology, Lý dynasty palaces reveal a distinctly Đại Việt tradition, and Angkor’s devas get their heads back. Also, the Singapore Stone is now a plushie.
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This week in #southeastasianarchaeology: Ban Chiang and community memory, living traditions at Sri Mahosot, rescue archaeology in the Philippines, a possible Kadiri-era site in Indonesia + jobs, grants & events.
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A big week for Vietnam archaeology, plus 3,000-year-old evidence for dairy processing in Malaysia and some very unusual Philippine pottery inlaid with Chinese porcelain.
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This week: ancient areca nut habits in Sulawesi, lashed-lug boat timbers from Bongal, Phanom Surin shipwreck plans, renewed Butuan excavations, and heritage concerns at Preah Vihear.
Teeth, timbers, and troubled temples — as one does.
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This week’s Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter is Thailand-heavy: new rock art, looting reports, and two archaeometric papers on prehistoric pottery from Don Up Mung and glass beads from Khu Bua.
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This week’s SEAArch newsletter is about information literacy, public archaeology, and reading the past carefully: claims, contexts, evidence, museum labels, old spellings, dates, maps, and the occasional viral post with a raised eyebrow.
Read it here: bit.ly/45YscuF
A 4,000-year-old painted plaque from Wetar Island may be the earliest securely dated example of a key Austronesian Painting Tradition motif — and it appears before pottery at the site.
Read more in Plaques, Ponds and Provenance
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This week in SEA archaeology:
🪨 Mangguan rock art dated to at least 4,220 years ago
🥁 AI reconstruction of Guangxi bronze drums
🌾 Rethinking resilience at Angkor
🗿 New excavations at Laos’ Hintang standing stones
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This week’s SEAArch newsletter is out: tambek stone tidal fish weirs on Bawean Island, prehistoric layers beneath Korat’s city wall, and Nguyễn-era military posts at Hải Vân Pass.
Fish traps, tidal flats and maritime memory.
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Tiger bones from Ice Age Palawan, blood-bearing binders in Huashan rock art, UNESCO debates, Angkor conservation and digital heritage in Vietnam.
This week’s newsletter: Blood, Big Cats and Buffer Zones.
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New Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter out now — featuring Wat Phra Mahathat’s World Heritage inscription, the reopening of Fort Cornwallis and Penang State Museum, and gold-rich burials at Don Yai Thong.
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This week in SEAArch: Prambanan’s perwara temples get new conservation attention, Phimai Black pottery emerges at Mun Bon Dam.
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This week’s Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter: gold rings and bronze drums from Phetchaburi, plus a thoughtful new paper on ethical collaboration when working with human remains in Southeast Asia.
Rings, remains, and responsibilities: bit.ly/4boHBaw
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Big milestone: the “Srivijaya” cover is done and the book is almost finished.
This autumn, a maritime kingdom at the crossroads of China, India and the Middle East sails onto bookshelves.
I’ll share more soon but thought perhaps you like this sneak-peek. #indonesia #books
This week’s Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter: Cobbles, Caves and Committees.
UNESCO intangible heritage news, synchrotron analysis of Nenggiri Valley artefacts, and Early Palaeolithic cobble tools from Cambodia’s Mekong terraces.
Read here: bit.ly/4w2w09g
This week’s Southeast Asian Archaeology: Angkorian ceramics, Tham Pha Mue rock art, and the return of Cambodian sculptures from the US.
Broken pots, painted hands, and provenance work — all in one issue.
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New this week: Sulawesi boat rock art, Timor-Leste pottery, Angkor ticket sales, the restored Nguyen throne, and a sharp new take on archaeology and law in the Philippines.
Read the latest Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter here: bit.ly/4g7tklO
New bonus post: Kota Batu, Brunei’s old capital.
A quiet archaeological park, but a fascinating site: tombs, ceramics, sandstone pillar bases, house posts, causeways and traces of a riverine capital connected to the wider maritime world.
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New Southeast Asian Archaeology newsletter: three new papers on what happened when things arrived, not just how they travelled. Plus Angkor hydraulics, Cẩm An shipwreck, and Phimai’s reopening.
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