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SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGYINTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER

ISSUE NO. 21December 2006

EDITORS

ELISABETH A. BACUS & RASMI SHOOCONGDEJ

806 Eaglenest Ave. Dept. of ArchaeologyAkron, OH 44303 Silpakorn UniversityUSA Bangkok 10200 Thailandeabacus@msn.com rasmis@mozart.inet.co.th

Greetings! This issue (only one for this year) includes the final part of Prof. Wilhelm Solheimsbrief history of Southeast Asian archaeology up to 1960. The Newsletter is again divided intoParts I and II, with the latter devoted to Solheims history.

Remember, if you have any suggestions for improving theNewsletter, please let us know.We are continuing to distribute the Newsletter primarily by e-mail, but will continue to sendcopies by regular mail to our colleagues who are not on e-mail. Please send us contributions forthe next issue by 15 May 2007.

Part I

REQUEST FOR REPRINTS & PUBLICATIONS

Dougald O'Reilly and Hor Lat, Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology, and the students would liketo express their gratitude to those who donated books and articles to the Royal University of FineArts in Phnom Penh. These items were deeply appreciated. The library of the Royal Universityof Fine Arts, Phnom Penh though is still in serious need of archaeology textbooks and otherarchaeology publications, so please send any such publications to them C/O Dr. DougaldOReilly, HeritageWatch, 33 Sothearos Blvd. Phnom Penh, Cambodia). For further information,contact Dougald at: doog@mobitel.com.kh

ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE ANTHONY F. GRANUCCI FUND. This announcement is targeted towardsarchaeologists who are nationals of Indonesia and Timor Leste. The Anthony F. Granucci Fund,

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through the Australian National University (ANU), will make capital available to fund smallresearch grants to qualified applicants. The fund has been established to encourage youngerresearchers in general those under the age of forty five - who are of Indonesian and Timoresenationality or who are resident in the Republic of Indonesia or the Republic of Timor Leste.Researchers may be in collaboration with non-qualified parties in connection with their projects.The Fund will provide: a) One or more research grants per annum to researchers submitting

worthy proposals within the topic area; b) Funds to assist in the translation of papers into Englishfor their publication and dissemination.

The topic area shall be the prehistory and protohistory of the geographical area covered atthe time of the creation of the fund by the territory of the Republic of Indonesia and the Republicof Timor Leste. For purposes of this fund, prehistory and protohistory shall include the timeperiod beginning from 40,000 BP to and including the early metal age (to 1000 BP). Topicsfalling outside these geographic and temporal ranges may be considered for prizes and grantswhen they include a significant aspect inside the range such as, by way of example, interactionsbetween indigenous cultures and Indic influences or comparative studies of issues and materialoutside and inside the geographical area.

Awardees of grants shall be obligated to submit reports on their work and utilisation offunds and to submit a final report or paper in the Indonesian or English languages. If a paper has

not been published, a portion of the grant could be used towards the costs of translating the paperinto English (if necessary or advisable for broad circulation) and assisting in the publication ofthe article or paper. The deadline for the next round of funding is 31 December 2006. Forfurther details, see: http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/ippa/ippa.htm

NSF-ARIZONA ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY OUTREACH PROGRAM.The University of Arizona NSF-Arizona Mass Spectrometry Laboratory is announcing a programto foster scholarly research in developing nations. The programs objective is to provideradiocarbon dates at no costto colleagues who, due to limited funding or limited instrumentalinfrastructure, would not otherwise have access to accelerator mass spectrometry. Twenty AMSradiocarbon dates per year will be awarded to successful applicants in the fields of archaeology,geoscience, and environmental science. Applications are being accepted from Southeast Asian

and the Pacific Island nations at this time. Qualifying nations include Burma, Laos, Thailand,Viet Nam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and all indigenous Pacific Nations.Australia, Brunei, French Polynesia, Hong Kong, Hawaii, New Caledonia, and New Zealand areexcluded.

Application Process. The application process requires the submission of a brief projectdescription, including a detailed description of the samples, their contexts, and their significance(2 pages maximum). Applicants must also submit an NSF-Arizona AMS Laboratory SampleSubmission Form and the Dating Agreement Form. These are available on-line at:www.physics.arizona.edu/ams

A single applicant may request up to three (3) AMS dates per project, per year. Closingdates are January 1, May 1 and September 1 in each year , and in each round the committeewill allocated approximately one third of the 20 dates available for each calendar year.

Successful applications will have several characteristics, crucially: 1) The proposalshould show scientific merit and clearly demonstrate that AMS radiocarbon dating is appropriateto address the question at hand. 2) The projects principal investigator should be based in thecountry in which the project is conducted, and should be directly and actively involved inconducting and completing the project. Applicants must also agree to publish the dates withinscholarly journals and make them freely available to other researchers upon request.Acknowledgement of the program and the NSF-Arizona AMS Laboratory in any papers, reportsand publications that develop from the project would be appreciated.

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For more information, feedback, and submission of applications, please contact one ofthe following:

Felicia Beardsley Peter Bellwood Greg HodginsDept. of Sociology & School of Arch & NSF-Arizona AMS LaboratoryAnthropology Anthropology University of ArizonaUniversity of La Verne ANU 1118 E Fourth Street

1950 3rd Street Canberra ACT 0200 Tucson, ArizonaLa Verne, CA Australia USA 85721USA 91750 peter.bellwood@anu.edu.au ghodgins@physics.arizona.edubeardsle@ulv.edu

SHERD LIBRARY AT NUS. The National University of Singapore Museum, part of the NUSCentre for the Arts, has decided to allocate space to a Sherd Library. This facility will house awide-ranging reference collection of ceramics from archaeological sites along the Silk Road ofthe Sea, which linked West, South, Southeast and East Asia.

The Sherd Library will provide facilities where scholars and students of all levels from allover the world can view and handle earthenware, porcelain, and stoneware for the purpose ofcomparative research. For this purpose, the Museum is seeking donations of sherds from as many

sites as possible. We hope to collect sherds from all types of archaeological sites, from kilns intheir countries of origin, to sherds from shipwrecks and from habitation sites.

The Museum would like to solicit donations for this unique facility. The Museum iswilling to pay the cost of packing and shipping. We will also provide a copy of the book

Earthenware in Southeast Asia in exchange for larger sherd collections. Should donors wish,their names will be prominently displayed (though those who may prefer to remains anonymousmay do so), and those using the collection will be required to cite the name of the donor in anypublications which make use of their donation.

Please address all inquires, suggestions, etc. to: Prof John Miksic, Southeast AsianStudies Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570. Email:cfav2@nus.edu.sg

WEB SITES & BLOGS

timorbanafatin.blogspot.com web blog[Editors note: Announcement of this new blog and of thefollowing message by the blogs creator, Nuno Vasco Oliveiraa PhD student at the Australian NationalUniversity was intended for the July 2006 issue of the Newsletter. As we were unable to send out anissue last summer, we have included it now]. Message to the EASAA: In the aftermath of the ofsituation occurring in East Timor in the past few weeks, which is mostly characterized bypolitical and civil unrest, the Governments institutions are working to a minimum and onlyslowly getting back to normality. As a consequence, and although this is still confined to thecapital city, Dili, logistics such as obtaining authorization from local authorities, renting a car orgetting food, became much more difficult thus hindering the possibility of carryingarchaeological work in East Timor for the time being.

A week ago, and considering that the news published in Australia on the crisis in EastTimor did not convey properly much of what was happening, I have decided to create a blogwhere I constantly try to add information originally published in Portuguese.

Distinct languages convey different ways of understanding and explaining the world. Inthis sense, East Timors past and recent history is one of indubitable richness. Sadly for theTimorese, this axiom represents a problem in itself. Due to its geography and history, East Timoris an island between worlds where people from many different nationalities have recently addedto the cultural melting pot that already existed.

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An island struggling both internally and externally, East Timor poses an ethicalchallenge. As a Portuguese researcher working in Canberra, I try to look at it from a non post-colonial perspective. I am well aware, though, of the obvious reasons why I have decided to workthere and not anywhere else in Southeast Asia.

I am also aware that despite being the fifth most spoken language in the world,Portuguese is very much inaccessible to a wide community of people working in East Timor or

interested in East Timorese issues. For that reason, and because I strongly believe that muchinformation published in this language is highly relevant to understand its past and presentsituation, I have created this blog.

East Timor is my own challenge but it is, above all, an international ethical challenge.

THE ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE IN AMSTERDAM web site www.kit.nl has allDutch cartographic materials of Java freely available.

SOUTHEAST ASIA IN THE MI NG SHI -LUat http://epress.nus.edu.sg/msl/ - is a uniquereference project of the Asia Research Institute and The Singapore E-Press, both of NationalUniversity of Singapore. This work identifies all of 3000+ references to Southeast Asiacontained within the Ming Dynasty reign annals, and provides them to readers in English-

language translation. The database is indexed for place- and personal names, and is fullysearchable. In addition to the more obvious polities of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, thedatabase also includes references to many Yunnan Tai polities that have since been incorporatedwithin the Chinese state.

SEAARCH - THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY NEWSBLOG at:http://seaarch.wordpress.com/

THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY SCHOLARLY WEBSITE:http://seasia.museum.upenn.edu. Please send references (e.g., the list of publications from yourCV), to add to the online bibliography, to Joyce White at: banchang@sas.upenn.edu. Also, tosupport data entry and maintenance of the Southeast Asian Archaeology Bibliography, please

consider making a designated contribution to Friends of Ban Chiang. Current donations arematched dollar for dollar by the Thai Archaeology Challenge Grant of the University Museum,University of Pennsylvania. Send your check in US dollars made out to Trustees of the Universityof Pennsylvania to Joyce White, University Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia PA, 19104-6324, USA.

RESEARCH REPORTS & NEWS

ANCIENT BOTANICALS: PAINTINGS OF FLORA, FAUNA AND FORESTARCHAEOLOGY at the Pang Mapha Highland Archaeology Project Mae Hong Son Province,Northwestern Thailand (between Thailand and Myanmar) by Valentina DuBasky.

The Project Ancient Botanicals: Paintings of Flora, Fauna and Forest Archaeology at thePang Mapha Highland Archaeology Project is a collaborative project between Dr. RasmiShoocongdej, Assistant Professor at Silpakorn University, the Principle Investigator of theHighland Archaeology Project, and Artist Valentina DuBasky. The project explores spiritualarchaeology through art and supports awareness and preservation of the archaeologicalenvironment through public events, exhibitions and workshops.

HERITAGEWATCH is set to launch the Heritage Friendly Tourism Campaign in conjunctionwith the Ministry of Tourism in Cambodia. The campaign seeks to promote responsible tourism

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and encourage businesses in Cambodia to support the arts, culture, heritage and developmentsectors. Businesses that contribute to these sectors are certified 'Heritage Friendly' and arepromoted through an advertising campaign including bill boards, banners, t-shirts, tuk tuk signsthat encourages people to patronize these businesses. The response from corporate Cambodia hasbeen tremendous and HeritageWatch looks forward to a positive outcome with further businessesbecoming Heritage Friendly in the years to come. In conjunction with the campaign

HeritageWatch is launching a magazine called Insight that will highlight archaeological research,development projects, arts and culture non-governmental organizations in Cambodia andinteresting facts and articles for visitors to the Kingdom.

A social development project is also set to be launched at Koh Ker supported by fundingfrom Friends of Khmer Culture and Lonely Planet Publications. The project will see the localpeople of Koh Ker benefit from the coming tourism boom at the site, training them in smallbusiness management, English language and site maintenance. HeritageWatch is working inconjunction with APSARA the government authority responsible for the management of the siteon this project.

HeritageWatch staff have recently completed a survey of looted sites around the templeof Banteay Chmar in Northwest Cambodia. The survey revealed an extensive Iron Ageoccupation of the area.

2007 will also see the release of a children's book calledIf the Stones Could Speak, a taleabout a group of Angkorian statues who grow up in the temples and centuries later are stolen bylooters and separated. All ends well as the friends end up repatriated to Cambodia.

For more news please visit www.heritagewatch.org and be sure to sign the petition toencourage Thailand and Singapore to sign the 1970 UNESCO convention.

MIDDLE MEKONG ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT 2006 by Joyce White andBounheuang Bouasisengpaseuth.

The Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) had a short field season in March2006. This joint research program of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and theDepartment of Museums and Archaeology, Lao PDR, focused on recording and analyzing theartifacts and site data recovered from the MMAP 2005 survey in Luang Prabang province. Fifty-

eight sites were identified during MMAP 2005, and surface finds were recorded in theArcGIS/Access database designed by Penn Anthro PhD student, Olivia Given. Finds rangingfrom flaked stone tools to stoneware ceramics show that the area has been inhabited continuouslyfor the past 10,000 years. Ben Marwick, ANU PhD student, also led the team in collecting rivercobbles near the Mekong suitable for flaking sumatralith-like cores. The team then flaked coresusing techniques probably employed by Hoabinhian knappers. The action archaeology exerciseassisted the development of a database recording system for flaked lithics for this area, and therecording of the lithics recovered so far by the project. The team also developed tri-lingual (Lao,English, and Thai) vocabularies for lithic analysis, photography, and databases to promotecommunication among team members.

U.S. AMBASSADORS FUND FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION U.S. Ambassador

Ralph L. Boyce presented, in October 2006, a 1.3 million baht grant under this program toProfessor Dr. Rasmi Shoocongdej, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, to preserveand manage the archaeological heritage of the Ban Rai and Tham Lod Rockshelters in PangMapha District, Mae Hong Son Province. The Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation wasestablished by the U.S. Congress in 2001. It allows American ambassadors to support efforts oftheir host countries to rescue cultural heritage that is fragile and in danger of being lost forever.Each year since its inception, the Ambassadors Fund has helped preserve Thai cultural heritage.In the first year, it supported Kamthieng House at the Siam Society. In 2002, the Antique TextileCollections at the National Museum in Bangkok received assistance. In 2003, the Fund

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contributed to the preservation of traditional Thai textile patterns and weaving techniques at theGolden Jubilee Royal Goldsmith College at the Grand Palace. In 2004, the fund supported thecreation of a digital archive of Thai-Muslim architectural heritage in the south of Thailand. Lastyear, the Fund turned north to preserve the murals at Wat Baan Koh, Lampang Province, with agrant of more than 2 million baht.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LAO STUDIES will be held 3 to 6May 2007 at Arizona State University. The main objective of this conference is to promote Laostudies by providing an international forum for scholars to present and discuss various aspects ofLao studies. The 2007 conference will feature presentations on any topic concerning LaoStudies. Topics include all ethnolinguistic groups of Laos (e.g. Mon-Khmer, Hmong-Mien,Tibeto-Burman, Lao-Tai), the Isan Lao and other Lao (Tai) groups in Thailand, cross-borderethnic groups in neighboring countries, and overseas diaspora heritage groups. We welcome bothproposals for panels and abstracts for individual papers on a wide range of interests including butnot limited to history, politics, development and planning, environment, classical literatures,

linguistics, music, sports, science, health, religion and ritual, ethnic groups, media and art history,and women and society. The languages to be used in the conference will be English, French andLao.

To present a paper at the conference, abstracts must be submitted by the followingdeadlines: December 15, 2006 is the deadline for panel proposals. For panel proposals, pleaseprovide the title of the panel and a brief paragraph describing its goal/rational, participantsnames, affiliations and e-mail address, the titles of their presentations and a paragraph-longabstract for each presentation. January 5, 2007 is the deadline for individual paper abstracts. Forindividual papers please provide no longer than a one page abstract with the title of abstract,author name(s), author affiliation and e-mail address, and content. Presentations will be 20minutes with 5 minutes for discussion. Panel Proposals and Abstracts must be typed andformatted. You may submit by postal mail or by an e-mail MS-Word attached file or at theconference website. Send abstracts to: icls2@asu.edu (or) Arizona State University,ICLS2/Center for Asian Research, Box 871702, Tempe, AZ 85287-1702, USA. Earlyregistration deadline is April 5, 2007.

Additional information on registration will be available on line at www.laostudies.org.Information on travel and accommodation and plans for publication of papers will also beavailable on the website. For more information please contact: Arizona State UniversityCenter for Asian Research, Faculty of Southeast Asian Studies, Box 871702, Tempe, AZ 85287-1702; icls2@asu.edu. Phone: +1 480 965 0118. FAX: +1 480 965 8317. Center for Lao Studies,1201 San Bruno Avenue, Suite 1, San Francisco, CA 94110. Phone: +1 415 401 6255. Email:laolanxang@yahoo.com

SYNCRETISM IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA: ADOPTION AND ADAPTATION,the second conference of the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture andReligion, will be held 24 to 27 May 2007 in Thailand.

Conference abstract: Since time immemorial, the region of South and Southeast Asiahas played a pivotal role in carrying the traits of culture and religion not only amongst its ownsocieties but also beyond. The basic carriers of such elements were Hinduism and Buddhismwhich took various routes (both land and sea) to reach the pre-modern Southeast Asia. Later onIslam and Christianity also entered the region and added lustre to the culture mosaic. Theconcept of syncretism in this area was not only visible in religious scenes but also in various

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spheres of socio-cultural life: be it social customs, language and literature, art and architecture,polity, economics or commerce, performing arts and communication.

For further details, visit: www.sseasr.org or contact the organizers at:conf2007@sseasr.org, sseasr@gmail.com orsecretariat@sseasr.org

THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF ASIA SCHOLARS will be held 2 to 5

August 2007 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For furtherdetails, contact: info@icas5kl.com

THE FOURTH FORBES SYMPOSIUM ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE FIELDOF ASIAN ART will be held 27 to 29 September 2007 at The Freer Gallery of Art,Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Paper proposals are sought that utilize scientificmethods of study applied to historic ceramics in Asia (Turkey to Japan, approximately 500 BCEto 1900 CE).

Potential topics include technological innovation, common technologies, raw materialselection and usage, trade and technology transfer or other questions of a technical, historical, orart historical nature. Papers that explore similarities and differences in ceramic technology, useand distribution intra- and inter-culturally are especially sought. To complement the scientific

papers, the symposium committee also welcomes art historical and archaeological papers thatconcentrate on the historical and cultural context of Asian ceramics. Papers that summarize thecurrent state of knowledge in an area of Asian ceramics and formulate questions wherefuture scientific analysis would be appropriate and necessary are also viable submissions.Authors are responsible for ensuring that their discussions are in compliance with SmithsonianInstitution policy relating to the UNESCO convention on the ownership of cultural property.Further information is available on the symposium website:http://www.asia.si.edu/visitor/dcsrSymposium.htm. Those interested in giving a paper are invitedto submit an abstract (c. 200 words) on original, previously unpublished research by 15 February2007. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 15 March 2007. Speakers should plan a 25-minute presentation. The symposium will be published. Speakers should plan to submit apublishable manuscript (3000-4000 words) at the time of the symposium. Funding to offset

speakers' travel expenses will be available. The language of the symposium is English.Contact: Forbes Symposium 2007/DCSR, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler

Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, MRC 707, P.O. Box 37012, Washington D.C., 20013-7012,U.S.A; Fax: 202-633-9474; email: dcsr@asia.si.edu.

RECENTLY HELD CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS

INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATIONSS 18TH CONGRESS was held from 20 to26 March 2006 on the campus of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City inMetroManila. The meeting was hosted by the Archaeological Studies Program at the Universityof the Philippines; by the Archaeology Division, National Museum of the Philippines; and by theW.G. Solheim II Foundation. For further details: http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/ippa/ippa.htm

ANGKOR: LANDSCAPE, CITY AND TEMPLE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE washeld from 18 to 23 July 2006 at the University of Sydney, Australia. The conference provided anopportunity for the international community of researchers involved with Angkor to cometogether and present work from the 1990s onwards, discuss future directions and collaborationand participate in specialist workshops and training sessions. For further details:acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/angkor/lwh/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=147&Itemid=106

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CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, hosted by theAsia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, was held 25 to 27 July 2006. Theconference created a dialogue between scholars from numerous disciplines, ranging fromgeography to economics. It developed the themes of tourism and its alternatives as managementstrategies; mitigation of the effects of tourism and other developmental forces; museums; site

preservation; and legal issues. One goal of the conference was to encourage contributors topropose innovative approaches to CRM in a Southeast Asian context--i.e. not an application ofEuro-American concepts of CRM, which don't work very well in many situations in SoutheastAsia where funding is limited, concepts of ownership of land and cultural resources are different,governmental structure and authority have different roles, etc. The conference also criticallyreflected upon how "cultural resources" come to be defined, the intersections between so-calledtangible and intangible cultural forms and the complex relationship between communityparticipation, cultural sovereignty and the politics of cultural utilization. For further details:www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=232

THE EIGHTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE BORNEO RESEARCH COUNCIL(BRC) was held in Kuching, Sarawak from 31 July to 1 August 2006. It was jointly organised by

BRC and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS).The theme was "Borneo in the New Century". For further details: www.unimas.my/brc2006/.

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS 11 thINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE was held at the Tumulus Bougon Museum (Deux-Svres,Poitou-Charentes), France from 14 to 17 September 2006. For conference details, contact:euraseaa2006@club-internet.fr

PRESENTED PAPERS

MIKSIC, JOHN 2006. Consumer Preferences in the Straits of Melaka in the 14th Century.

Presented in the session,Asian Cosmopoleis: Networks in Premodern and Early Modern Eras, atthe Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting.Abstract: Wang Dayuans Dao yi zhi lue, written in 1349, describes market conditions in

Southeast Asian ports in the late Yuan Dynasty. This was a period of intense commercial activityand early overseas Chinese enterprise. Wangs account is one of the earliest and most detailedrecords of the degree of diversity of taste in consumer goods in Southeast Asia. Far from anundifferentiated and unsophisticated market, Wangs account shows that Chinese merchants hadto tailor their wares to very specific markets. This paper will examine archaeological evidencefrom Singapore to try to uncover some of the basic factors (cultural, social, and economic) whichmight account for the wide degree of divergence between the different societies of Sumatra, Riau,and the Malay Peninsula in this period.

CONFERENCE REVIEWS

REPORT ON THE 18TH CONGRESS OF THE INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORYASSOCIATIONby Ben Marwick, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, AustralianNational University (benjamin.marwick@anu.edu.au).

In March 2006 the Archaeological Studies Program at the University of the Philippines(UP), the Archaeology Division, National Museum of the Philippines and the W.G. Solheim IIFoundation were the gracious and able hosts of the eighteenth congress of the Indo-Pacific

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Prehistory Association. The congress was held on the UP campus, Quezon City, Manila on 20-26March 2006. About 29 sessions containing over 300 papers in total were received by the 300-oddparticipants. Such a huge amount of prehistory presented in just a few days is impossible for oneperson to record in its entirety, so this report reflects only the highlights of my personalexperience of the congress. No doubt many interesting sessions were missed and surely some finepapers escaped my attention. Hopefully many of the presentations will appear in the proceedings

and I look forward to catching up on these when the congress proceedings are published. In themeantime, a complete list of the congress abstracts is available online at the IPPA webpages.

The congress was organised into five major themes: lithic studies, hunter-gatherers inprehistory, heritage resource management, regional archaeology and thematic issues. Thematicissues was the biggest theme (by numbers of sessions) and included topics such as Africa and theIndian Ocean, bioarchaeology, Neolithic Southeast Asia, climate change and a session celebratingthe work of Bion Griffin. What follows is my selection of some of the especially newsworthypapers. Harry Widianto of the National Research Centre of Archaeology in Yogyakarta,Indonesia, presented a paper on the earliest artefacts in island Southeast Asia, representing someof the earliest lithics outside of Africa. These small stone artefacts were found in layers datingfrom 1.2 to 1.6 million years at the famous hominid site at Sangiran in the Solo Basin of CentralJava. The finds have not been published yet and excavations continue that might yield even older

artefacts.A series of papers on work in Vietnam and Thailand added substantially to our

understanding of the Hoabinhian. Seonbok Yi and Lee June-Jeong (Seoul National University)presented their study of radiocarbon dates showing that Hoabinhian stone artefacts were presentin northern Vietnam as early as 18,000 BP, confirming that Hoabinhian technology extends wellbefore the Holocene. Rasmi Shoocongdej (Silpakorn University, Bangkok) and her team at theHighland Archaeology Project in Pangmapha presented a series of papers about two Hoabinhiansites in northwest Thailand, one with an unusually rich deposit of lithics and faunal remains,making it a valuable source of data for understanding hunter-gather life in seasonal foresthighlands. Hang Cho Cave in northern Vietnam is similarly informative Hoabinhian site whichwas reported on by a number of Japanese, Vietnamese and other researchers. Details of a humanskeleton from the early Holocene levels of Hang Cho were presented, supporting the theory that

mainland Southeast Asia was occupied by indigenous people similar to present-day Australo-Melanesians prior to an expansion of migrants from Northeast Asia into this area. Further supportfor this theory came from a presentation discussing the single Australo-Melasnesian maleskeleton reported from the Neolithic levels of the cemetery at Man Bac, northern Vietnam (MarcOxenham, pers. comm.). This find suggests that people similar to Hoabinhians were still living innorthern Vietnam when the new migrants arrived. This individual was buried in the same mannerand with the same material culture as the newer inhabitants of this site, suggesting some level ofinteraction between these biologically (and perhaps culturally) very distinct groups.

Also from Vietnam was the unusual find of a log coffin-boat, excavated from a canalbank near the Red River and reported at IPPA by Australian and Vietnamese archaeologists.Although log coffins are relatively common in archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, this one isimportant because it was built using woodworking techniques that are identical to those used in

the Greco-Roman world (the only other place where this technique is known so early). This raisesthe possibility of some kind of flow of technology between the west and east 2000 years ago,although the possibility of independent invention cannot be ruled out. Well-preserved fabricswere also found with the coffin, giving a rare insight into early weaving traditions andtechnology.

Moving onto island Southeast Asia, we heard about dramatic finds of skeletons of theearliest Polynesians from excavations by a team from archaeologists from Australia and Vanuatuworking on the Vanuatu Islands. Three dozen headless individuals were recovered with Lapitaceramics. Dates from shell indicate that the graves are about 3000 years old, making it amongst

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the oldest and largest Lapita cemeteries known. The ceramics have some similarities to early red-slip pottery found in Taiwan and other islands of Southeast Asia, supporting the argument for aTaiwanese origin of the Lapita peoples.

An interesting contradiction to this out-of Taiwan model for Lapita origins was presentedin a paper by Keith Dobney (University of Durham) and his numerous international colleagues.Amongst the wealth of archaeozoological data on pigs and rats that they presented were

mitochondrial DNA sequences from wild pigs suggesting that the pigs arriving with the earliestLapita people are more closely related to pigs from Hawaii, Vanuatu, and Halmahera than theyare to Taiwanese pigs. This suggests that the origins of the Lapita people might be found in near-to-remote Oceania rather than Taiwan. Preliminary data on the dental morphology of rats werealso discussed and promises to be potentially as powerful as mtDNA at resolving questions ofhuman dispersal (Keith Dobney, pers. comm.).

On a more theoretical note, there were at least two papers that explored some criticaltheoretical approaches to Southeast Asian archaeology. Anna Klln (Stockholm University)spoke about how archaeology in Laos is used as an instrument for education and to legitimiseclaims of supremacy by various ethnic groups. Lindsay Lloyd-Smith (University of Cambridge)presented a critical discussion of current notions of regional cultural traditions in his work on thejar burials in the West Mouth of Niah Cave, Sarawak. These papers are an indication of the

increasing sophistication and diversity of conceptual frameworks in Southeast Asian archaeology.Thanks are due to Peter Bellwood (Australian National University), Victor Paz (UP) and

Doreen Bowdery (Australian National University) for their hard work in ensuring the overallsuccess of the congress. Paz was also assisted by staff, students and graduates from the UPArchaeological Studies Program who managed the daily affairs of the congress. A mark of thesuccess of the congress is high diversity of people attending. As one of the few majorinternational conferences accessible to Asian scholars there was an impressive turnout of localdelegates. For example, in the session on Lao archaeology more than half of the papers had Laoauthors or co-authors, most of whom were attending their first IPPA congress. Students andyoung researchers were also well represented, especially from Thailand and the Philippines. Itmay even be time for IPPA to have a student chapter to help develop the skills of youngerresearchers and encourage good international collegial habits. At many international conferences

a popular way to encourage quality participation by younger researchers is to recognise especiallygood papers with awards (which need not have any monetary value), an idea which might beworthy of consideration by the IPPA executive committee.

FELLOWSHIPS

THE BRITISH ACADEMY VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS TheAcademy's Visiting Professorships scheme enables distinguished scholars from overseas to beinvited to spend a minimum of two weeks in the United Kingdom. The Academy grants the titleof British Academy Visiting Professor or (for a more junior scholar) British Academy VisitingFellow and awards a sum of money towards the estimated travel and maintenance costs. All

arrangements are undertaken by the visitor's British sponsor. While the delivery of lectures andparticipation in seminars is not precluded, the main purpose of the visit should be to enable thevisitor to pursue research. It is not intended that the Academy's Fellowships and Professorshipsshould be used in conjunction with a non-stipendiary university fellowship. Eligibility:Candidates for nominations must be either established scholars of distinction or younger peoplewho show great promise and who would benefit from time to pursue their research in the UnitedKingdom. Level of grant: The Academy will meet travel expenses to the United Kingdom, andprovide subsistence for Visiting Professors and Fellows up to a maximum of 700 pounds a week.Applicants will be expected to submit a carefully-costed budget within this limit. The normal

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maximum length of visit will be one month, but applications for longer periods will beconsidered, although it will be expected that the weekly budget for longer visits will be set at amore moderate level. Method of application and closing date: The British sponsor should applyon the Visiting Professorships application form, available from the Academy's InternationalRelations Department (Tel. 20 7969 5220, overseas@britac.ac.uk). Applications direct fromforeign scholars will not be accepted. The closing date for applications is 31 December.

Applications are considered in late February, for visits to take place during the financial yearbeginning 1 April. (It may be possible to entertain applications at other times of the year, but theAcademy's aim is to allocate the available funds at one time.)

THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIP COMMISSION IN THE UK. TheCommission was set up under the Commonwealth Scholarship Act 1959, as the body responsiblefor the United Kingdom's participation in the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan,itself established in 1959. The Plan was designed as a system of awards to men and women fromall Commonwealth countries chosen for their high intellectual promise and their capacity toreturn to make a significant contribution to life in their own countries. One of its guidingprinciples is that it be based upon mutual co-operation and the sharing of educational experienceamong all countries of the Commonwealth. As well as General Scholarships, the Commission

also administers Academic Staff Scholarships, Commonwealth Academic Fellowships, Split-SiteDoctoral Scholarships, Scholarships by Distance Learning, Professional Fellowships and theDFID Shared Scholarship Scheme. More information on all of these schemes, and also on thework of the Commission (including Annual Reports and Events information) can be found on theUK page of the recently launched international CSFP website: www.csfp-online.org/hostcountries/uk/

THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS.The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, invites applicationsfor up to twenty Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF) to be based in various departments/programmes. The PDF scheme is intended for scholars at the beginning stages of their academiccareer. The successful candidate is generally expected to have completed their doctoral studies

not more than three years prior to the time of application. A candidate who has satisfied all therequirements for a PhD and is awaiting the conferment of the degree may also be considered.The one-year Fellowship is renewable, upon review, for a second year. Closing date forapplications is 31 December 2006, for appointments to begin in August 2007. Applicants will beinformed of the outcome by March 2007. Please visit http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg for details.

ASIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE (SENIOR)VISITING FELLOWSHIPS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS. Applications areinvited for (Senior) Visiting Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Asia ResearchInstitute (ARI) for commencement between July 2007 and June 2008. The positions are intendedfor outstanding active researchers from both the Asian region and the world, to bring tocompletion an important program of research in the social sciences and humanities.

Interdisciplinary interests are encouraged. Asia as a research field is defined loosely in termsof the region in which Singapore is positioned. Up to three months of a 12-month fellowship canbe spent conducting fieldwork in the Asian region.

A majority of the positions will be allocated to the more specific areas (indicated on thewebsite). However some will be reserved for outstanding projects in any area. Applicants shouldmention which category they are applying in or if none, write open category . Applicationswhich link two specific fields are also welcome.

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Postdoctoral Fellowships Candidates must have fulfilled all requirements of the PhDwithin the last 4 years. The research may be in any field in the humanities and social sciences,extending into legal, commercial and environmental concerns.

Interested applicants are invited to email/mail their applications, consisting of: coverletter indicating the position applied for, area of research focus, and preferred date ofcommencement of fellowship; CV; synopsis of the proposed research project; and at least one

sample of their published work. Ensure that at least 2 referees submit directly to us a confidentialreport on the applicant's academic standing and on the applicant's research project by 31 January2007. Address for submission of applications and references: Human Resources, c/o Ms ChongMei Peen, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, AS7, Level 4, 5 Arts Link,Singapore, 117570. Fax: (65) 6779 1428. Email: joinari@nus.edu.sg For further details:www.ari.nus.edu.sg/article_view.asp?id=279

THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S INCOMING FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME aims to fosterscience and technology links between the UK and various countries throughout the world,enabling outstanding postdoctoral scientists to conduct cutting-edge research with their UKcounterparts. The research undertaken must be on a subject within the natural sciences, andincludes the scientific aspects of archaeology. The Asian countries which the fellowship

programme includes are: China, India, Japan, South Korea and South East Asia (Brunei, Burma(Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam).

All applications for this scheme must be completed online via e-GAP by the UK hostscientist on behalf of an overseas candidate. The host must be a British or EU citizen resident inthe UK. Non-UK/EU citizens must have held a permanent position at a UK institute for threeyears minimum to act as a host. Applicants and their overseas candidates must be of postdoctoralor equivalent status at the time the award is taken up. Scientists in the final year of their PhD cansubmit an application to be considered for a fellowship. If successful, the award will only begiven subject to the confirmation of their PhD at the time when the award is taken up. Fellowshipcandidates must be nationals of the country from which they are applying and should be residentand working in the country of nationality. Priority may be given to applicants with lessexperience of having worked abroad. Applicants currently in the UK are not eligible to apply.

Candidates for the fellowship programme should identify and contact a UK host scientist who iswilling to submit an application on their behalf; substantial contact between host and applicantprior to the application is essential. This contact should lead to a clearly defined and mutually-beneficial research proposal. All applicants must be competent in oral and written English. TheUK host should verify they are happy with the level of English of the applicant in the applicationform where this is requested.

The Royal Society will provide funding for visits of between six months minimum andup to 12 months maximum. UK hosts should be based at any UK research institution. Scientistsworking in governmental research institutes are not necessarily excluded from acting as hosts butthey should explain, in a separate email, why their parent institute is not funding the visit. TheRoyal Society will provide funding to cover the visiting scientists cost of living in the UKincluding food and accommodation. A further 1000 is provided for research expenses and

another 1000 is provided for subsidiary scientific visits within the UK and Europe. Rounds forapplications will be open approximately 12 weeks before the closing date - ChinaFellowships: early May and early October annually; India Fellowships: early May and earlyOctober annually; South East Asia, South Korea and Japan Fellowships: early February annually.For further details: www.royalsoc.ac.uk/funding.asp?id=2349

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. Graduate StudentFellowships- These fellowships allow students to conduct research for ten-week periods inassociation with Smithsonian research staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a

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graduate program of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet havebeen advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program. Predoctoral Fell owships- These fellowshipsallow students to conduct research for periods of three to twelve months. Applicants must havecompleted coursework and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree, and must beengaged in dissertation research. In addition, candidates must have the approval of theiruniversities to conduct their doctoral research at the Smithsonian. Postdoctoral and Seni or

Fellowships- Postdoctoral Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars whohave held the doctoral degree or equivalent for fewer than seven years as of the applicationdeadline. Senior Fellowships of three to twelve months are available for scholars who have heldthe doctoral degree or equivalent for more than seven years as of the application deadline.Applications for senior fellowships may be made up to eighteen months in advance. Stipends forsenior fellowships are the same as for the postdoctoral program, but the Smithsonian's stipendmay be matched by other sources of funding such as a sabbatical salary. Stipends: Senior andPostdoctoral - $40,000 per year; Predoctoral - $25,000 per year; Graduate Students - $5,500.Deadline:January 15th (postmark) for awards to begin on or after June 1st. For application andfurther information: www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS IN

CONSERVATION OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS PROGRAM These fellowships areoffered to recent graduates of masters programs in art conservation or the equivalent orconservation scientists, including those at the postdoctoral level, who wish to conduct researchand gain further training in Smithsonian conservation laboratories for a period of one year.Additional facilities may be available to museum or archives fellows for analytical work at theMuseum Conservation Institute (MCI). The fellowship begins in the fall of 2007. A stipend of$30,000 is being offered plus allowances. Deadline: January 15, 2007. Contact: Office ofResearch Training and Services, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Victor Building, Suite9300, MRC 902, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012. Phone: (202) 275-0655. E-mail: siofg@si.eduWeb site: www.si.edu/ofg/Applications/CFELL/CFELLapp.htm

SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - POSTGRADUATE

FELLOWSHIPS AND PRE-GRADUATE INTERNSHIPS IN ARCHAEOLOGICALCONSERVATION Fellowships and pre-graduate internships in archaeological conservationavailable for recent graduates of academic conservation training programs or students in theirfinal (practical) year of studies at such programs. These one-year fellowships, to be spent atSmithsonian-related archaeological field work sites and at SCMRE, usually start in the fall.Applicants are encouraged to contact Harriet Beaubien, the Head of the ArchaeologicalConservation Training Program before submitting an application. Telephone: (301) 238-1235.Deadline: February 1st for receipt of completed applications. Contact: Head, ArchaeologicalConservation Training Program, Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education,Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746-2863. Web site:www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS FOR THE STUDY OFSOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. These fellowships offer three years of tuition,stipend and health insurance, plus pilot research funding and opportunities to participate inarchaeology field training programs in Southeast Asia during the summer. Awardees will bechosen based on the overall strength of their application, along with their interest in andcommitment to studying the archaeology of Southeast Asia. Applicants must apply for regularadmission to the University of Washington Archaeology Program (procedures, requirements andgeneral information at http://depts.washington.edu/anthweb/programs/grad_admissions.php).Application deadline is January 15, 2007 for fellowships beginning in September 2007. We also

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plan to offer these fellowships in 2008 and 2009. Funding is provided in part by an award fromthe Henry Luce Foundation. Details on this program can be found athttp://faculty.washington.edu/plape/Luce.htm. Please address inquires to Dr. Peter Lape atplape@u.washington.edu.

WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS ProfessionalDevelopment International Fellowships are intended for scholars and advanced students fromcountries in which anthropology or specific subfields of anthropology are underrepresented andwho therefore seek additional training to enhance their skills or to develop new areas of expertisein anthropology. The program offers three types of awards: Predoctoral Fellowship for studyleading to a Ph.D.; Postdoctoral Fellowship for scholars wishing advanced training; LibraryResidency Fellowship for advanced students and postdoctoral scholars within five years ofreceiving their doctorate to travel to libraries with outstanding collections in anthropology.

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships: Applicants must be prepared todemonstrate: the unavailability of such training in their home country; their provisionalacceptance by a host institution that will provide such training; their intention to return and workin their home country upon completion of their training. The applicant must have a home sponsor

who is a member of the institution with which he/she is affiliated in the home country and a hostsponsor who is a member of the institution in which the candidate plans to pursue training. Thehost sponsor must be willing to assume responsibility for overseeing the candidate's training.Because the fellowship is intended as a partnership with the Host Institution in providing thefellow's training, it is expected that candidates will also be offered support by the host institution.Predoctoral Fellowships are made for amounts up to $15,000 per year. Fellows may apply for upto two renewals. Postdoctoral Fellowships are made for amounts up to $35,000 for one year, withthe possibility of one renewal. Inquiries about the predoctoral and postdoctoral awards should bemade by means of a one-page Summary Statement of Purpose. Preliminary requirements must bemet to determine eligibility for a formal application. There is no deadline for these programs,however, those interested in receiving a Predoctoral or Postdoctoral Fellowship application mustcontact the foundation at least six months prior to enrollment in the host institution.

Library Residency Fellowships: Applicants must be prepared to show that travel to alibrary is necessary for preparing a research proposal or completing a project designed to advanceteaching and scholarship in the home country. They must also be able to obtain a letter from theirhome supervisor or chairperson attesting to the applicant's need of library materials not availablein the home institution. The foundation has set up host sponsors at several libraries with excellentcollections in different areas of anthropology, from which the applicant can choose. An applicantmust be accepted by one of these sponsors before a library residency can be awarded. LibraryResidency Fellowships are made for amounts up to $5,000 for a maximum period of threemonths. They are not renewable. Library Residency Fellowship candidates should contact thefoundation at least three months before their intended starting date.

Contact details: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 220 FifthAve, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001-7708. Fax: 001.212.683.9151. Forms can be requested

by e-mail (inquiries@wennergren.org), by letter or telephone (001 212-683-5000). Web address:www.wennergren.org/programsirg.html

RESEARCH GRANTS

LEAKEY FOUNDATION The Leakey Foundation was formed to further research into humanorigins, behaviour and survival. Special research Grants (up to $20,000) available to post-doctoral and senior scientists for exceptional research projects studying multidisciplinary

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palaeoanthropology. For further information, contact: Grants Officer, The Leakey Foundation,P.O. Box 29346, 1002A O'Reilly Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94129-0346 USA; Telephone: (415)561-4646; FAX: (415) 561-4647; E-mail: grants@leakeyfoundation.org; or visit their web siteat: www.leakeyfoundation.org/

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY For information write to: Committee for Research

and Exploration, National Geographic Society 17th and M Streets, N.W., Washington, DC 20036USA; or visit their web site at: www.nationalgeographic.com/research/grant/rg1.html

ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION Awards to assist women and men of outstanding promise tomake significant contributions to research and teaching or public service in the future as potentialstaff members of developing-country institutions associated with the Foundation. For informationwrite to: Rockefeller Foundation 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036 USA.

WENNER-GREN FOUNDATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH. Forinformation on their research grants write to: 220 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10001-7708,USA or visit their web site at: www.wennergren.org

RECENT PHD AND MA THESES

EYRE, CHUREEKAMOL ONSUWAN 2006. Prehistoric and Proto-historic Communities inthe Eastern Upper Chao Phraya River Valley, Thailand: Analysis of Site Chronology, Settlement

Patterns, and Land Use. PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University ofPennsylvania. Dr. Joyce C. White, Supervisor.

Abstract. Southeast Asia is one major region where applications of socio-political frameworksemphasizing progressive development and increasing degrees of social hierarchy have beenargued as inadequate for understanding past societies. Settlement systems in Thailand that existedthroughout the period of technological change incorporating the bronze and iron ages have not yetbeen investigated from a heterarchical viewpoint. The dissertation goal is to test heterarchical and

hierarchical frameworks for best fit with settlement patterns in the region of Kok Samrong-TakhliUndulating Terrain (KSTUT) in the eastern side of the Upper Chao Phraya River Valley. A two-stage survey, a reconnaissance survey followed by a 58 km 2 intensive survey, was conducted inorder to locate sites across different landscapes, identify subregional ceramic variation andpossibly geographic shifts in ceramic subregions over time, and determine evidence for economicspecialization among sites of varying sizes. Twenty-five open-air sites were identified across thealluvial plain, middle terrace, and upland zones. The KSTUT data indicate a long occupationalhistory from the bronze and iron ages into the Proto-historic period. The prehistoric settlementdata are compatible with a heterarchical settlement model. The Metal Age agrarian communitieswith various site sizes exploited diverse environmental zones; they developed sustainable andsufficient subsistence strategies with no marked changes over time. Upland cultivation of anumber of crops was likely the dominant subsistence mode. Shared ceramic stylistics within the

KSTUT region defines the area as a ceramic subregion; such subregions are argued to beproducts of enduring social networks that, in the case of the KSTUT, encompassed variousenvironments. The iron age settlement data do not support a close relationship among theappearance of iron, wet rice agriculture, and development of chiefdoms. Although the iron agecommunities experienced some gradual changes (e.g., increasing regional integration and broadertrade networks) and the possible movement of people from upland to lowland areas during theLate Iron phase, the KSTUT ceramic subregion was relatively unchanged in extent. No evidencefor hierarchical settlement patterns occurred until the Proto-historic (Dvaravati) period.

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HUFFER, DAMIEN 2005. Social Organization at the Neolithic/Bronze Age Boundary inNorthern Vietnam: Man Bac Cemetery as a Case Study. MA Thesis, School of Archaeology andAnthropology, Australian National University.

Abstract. This study critically reviews theories and techniques of mortuary archaeology toformulate a set of hypotheses regarding social organization, as revealed through gender and

status. These hypotheses are tested on a mortuary assemblage of 47 individuals recentlyexcavated from Man Bac, northern Vietnam dated to 3500-4000 BP. This cemetery assemblagestraddles the poorly understood Neolithic/Bronze Age boundary. During this period agriculture,trade and craft specialization were beginning to noticeably affect the material culture, health,mortality, settlement patterns and social organization of communities across Southeast Asia. Thisstudy forms the first comprehensive mortuary study to be undertaken on prehistoric Vietnamesematerial.

The methodological approach involved an extensive review of the archaeologicalliterature focused on status and gender in informing aspects of social organization. A series ofmortuary studies examining such issues in prehistoric Thailand were then explored in detail andtwo sets of hypotheses, collectively forming a model of social organization relating to status andgender were developed. This model was then tested on the mortuary assemblage from Man Bacprincipally by way of descriptive statistics and visual analyses of mortuary patterns usingvariables such as age, sex, body orientation, associated grave goods and so forth. Multivariatecluster analysis was also employed in an effort to confirm the visual findings and/or providefurther insights into social organization at this site.

The results of this study suggested that: (1) Man Bac exhibits many mortuary featurescommonly seen in Southeast Asian Bronze Age sites; (2) Man Bac reveals unique localizedaspects which are atypical of the time period and region; (3) both vertical and horizontaldifferentiation were present, with vertical differentiation being relatively subtle and operating onan individual basis; and (4) age-based differentiation was more strongly expressed than sex-based, or gender-based, differentiation. The primary implications of the these findings whichwarrant further analysis in the future are questions regarding: (1) the role of the cultural/socialpersona in determining an individuals status and/or gender during this time; (2) the non-automatic nature of the bestowing of personhood; and (3) the unusual importance of both womenand children (above a certain age) in the life of the community. It is anticipated that furtherexcavation, C14 dating, DNA analysis, ceramic vessel residue analysis, and palaeopathologicalwork will build on the findings of this study.

KANJANAJUNTORN, PODJANOK 2006. Developing Social Complexity in Metal Age West-Central Thailand ca. 500 BC AD 500. PhD Thesis, Department of Archaeology andAnthropology, University of Bristol.

Abstract. This thesis explores the diversity of late prehistoric West-Central Thailand as part ofthe dynamic social development in Southeast Asia. During that period the societies witnessedsignificant changes in socio-economics, adopting foreign cultures and new technologies andenjoyed prosperous trade. Certain societies developed ultimately into states. Long-distance trade

is generally considered to be the mechanism of the social transformation. The stimulus from long-distance trade alone, however, is not sufficient to explain the emergence of the early statesbecause not all societies associated with long-distance trade evolved beyond chiefdoms. A modeladopted from Tourtellot and Sabloffs (1972), proposing that environmental condition andexchange patterns related to the socio-economic development, is considered to be applicable tothe development of the secondary states in Southeast Asia. This research examines theenvironmental and cultural landscapes of Metal Age West-Central Thailand to test the model.

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This research underlines how the Metal Age societies in West-Central Thailandultimately developed into the state ofDvaravati including comparing it to other regions wherelong-distance trade also had an impact but which did not achieve the social complexity of a state.It can be said that long-distance trade alone is not sufficient to explain the formation of earlystates in Southeast Asia. Various internal factors such as food surplus, population growth,localisation and diversity of internal exchange have been proposed as being responsible for state

formation in Southeast Asia. Additionally, the environment is also considered to have animportant role in social development, it gives an opposite affect. Some scholars believed that asociety was prevented from developing to a complex level if it was in an environment, such as asemi-tropical zone like Southeast Asia, where societies throughout the region had equal access tothe natural resources and occupational expansion was a minor problem.

It may be true that the speed of the development of social complexity can be underminedby a fortunate environment because economic monopolies hardly occur. However, state societieshave been identified in Southeast Asia at least since the second century AD and they appear tohave emerged rather rapidly from the last few centuries BC. Hence it can be said that theadvantage of having a rich environment may also have contributed in the development of socialcomplexity. This thesis demonstrates that the environment has had a major contributory role inthe development of the secondary states in Southeast Asia.

Field surveys and test excavations were undertaken in the areas of the archaeologicalsites concentrations, U-Thong and Chom Bueng. The results contribute to the understanding ofthe settlement patterns and the relationships among archaeological sites in the region as well astheir role in the international context.

MIJARES, ARMAND SALVADOR B. 2006. Unravelling Prehistory: The Archaeology ofNorth-eastern Luzon. PhD Thesis, Department of Archaeology and Natural History, AustralianNational University.

Abstract. Northern Luzon is an important area for understanding and reconstructing theprehistory of the Southeast Asian region. From archaeological work undertaken in the 1970s, wecan see the potential of the area in contributing to our understanding of the peopling of thePhilippine Islands, from the Pleistocene foragers to the migration of the early Austronesians.

This thesis attempts to synthesize past and current archaeological research in the area, aswell as to present new findings from archaeological excavations in the Peablanca caves. Theexcavations of Callao, Dalan Serkot, and Eme caves provide fresh data for reconstructing thetransition from the Preceramic into the ceramic periods. Several analytical approaches are usedto reconstruct past culture and subsistence strategies. Analysis of cultural materials includes lithicand ceramic analysis. In order to reconstruct past diets and environments, specialists haveconducted a suite of analyses, such as phytolith analysis, macrobotanical analysis and faunalidentification. A soil micromorphology analysis has been conducted in order to understand cavedepositional histories and estimate degrees of post depositional disturbance.

The recent excavations in the Peablanca caves have provided the earliest dated evidenceof human occupation in Luzon, at c. 25,000 BP. Evidence from faunal identification,macrobotanical and phytolith remains shows that a broad spectrum subsistence strategiesemployed by these early foragers. The lithic analysis shows some changes from Late Pleistoceneinto early Holocene technology.

Interaction between the foragers of the Peablanca cave sites and the early Austronesianfarmers of the Cagayan Valley was established by at least 3500 years ago. Farmers exchangedearthenware pottery, clay earrings, spindle whorls and shell beads with foragers, possibly forforest products. This exchange, however, did not on present evidence include cereal-based foodssuch as rice. The botanical evidence from the cave sites shows a heavy reliance on wild andarboreal food sources.

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This thesis therefore proposes a general culture history of northern Luzon from the latePleistocene to the mid-Holocene period.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

BACUS, ELISABETH A. 2006. Gender in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology. InHandbook of Gender in Archaeology, ed. by S. Nelson, pp. 633-666. Walnut Creek: AltaMiraPress.

BACUS, ELISABETH A., IAN C. GLOVER and VINCENT C. PIGOTT (eds) 2006.Uncovering Southeast Asias Past. Selected Papers from the 10th International Conference of the

European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. Singapore: National University ofSingapore Press.

Contents: Prasat Phnom Rung in the Light of the Inscriptions by H.R.H. Princess Maha ChakriSirindhorn; Crossing National Boundaries: Southern China and Southeast Asia in Prehistory by C.Higham; Late Pleistocene Activities at the Tham Lod Rockshelter in Highland Pang Mapha, Mae HongSon Province, Northwestern Thailand by R. Shoocondej; Recent Investigation of Early People (La tePleistocene to Early Holocene) from Ban Rai and Tham Lod Rock Shelter Sites, Pang Mapha District, Mae

Hong Son Province, Northwestern Thailand by N. Pureepatpong; Bones from Hell: Preliminary Resultsof New Work on the Harrisson Faunal Assemblage from the Deepest Part of Niah Cave, Sarawak by R.J.Rabett, P.J. Piper and G. Barker; Bukit Bunuh, Lenggong, Malaysia: New Evidence of Late PleistoceneCulture in Malaysia and Southeast Asia by M. Saidin; The Austronesian Story and Farming -languageDispersals: Caveats on Timing and Independence in Proxy Lines of Evidence from the Indo-EuropeanModel by S. Oppenheimer; Unpacking the Island Southeast Asian Neolithic Cultural Package, andFinding Local Complexity by S. OConnor; Returning to East Timor: Prospects and Possibilities from anArchaeobotanical Project in the New Country by N. Vasco Oliveira; Ban Non Wat: The First ThreeSeasons by C. Higham and Rachanie Thosarat; Social Identities in Bronze Age Northeast Thailand:Intersections of Gender, Status and Ranking at Non Nok Tha by E.A. Bacus; Excavation at Nong Kwang,an Iron Age Site in Ratchaburi Province, West-Central Thailand by P. Kanjanajuntorn; Tombes des Agedu Bronze et du Fer dans le Bassin de la Samon (Bronze and Iron Age Burials in the Samon River Valley)by J.-P. Pautreau, A.-S. Coupey, P. Mornais and Aung Aung Kyaw; Crossing the Style Barrier: New

Evidence from Thailand by B. Vincent; Standing Stones in Northern Lao PDR by K. Keosphha; A Program of Analysis of Organic Remains from Prehistoric Copper-producing Settlements in the KhaoWong Prachan Valley, Central Thailand: A Progress Report by V.C. Pigott, K.M. Mudar, A. Agelarakis,L. Kealhofer, S.A. Weber and J.C. Voelker; Inland Sa Huynh Culture along the Thu Bon River V alley inCentral Vietnam by M. Yamagata; Dating Vietnamese Prehistory: Towards the Establishment of aSecure Database for Archaeological 14C Measurements by R. Thomas and R. McLauchlan; NewResearch into Dongson Cloth from Waterlogged Sites in Vietnam by J. Cameron and P. Bellwood;Taiwan Jade in the Context of Southeast Asian Archaeology by Hung Hsiao -chun, Y. Iizuka and P.Bellwood; Excavations at Tra Kieu and Go Cam, Quang Nam Province, Central Viet Nam by NguyenKim Dung, I. Glover and M. Yamagata; Excavations at Minh Su Mound, Go Thap site, Dong Thapprovince, South Vietnam, 20002003 by Le Thi Lien; The Archaeology of Batujaya (West Java,Indonesia): An Interim Report by P.-Y. Manguin and Agustijanto Indrajaya; The Moated Site of PromtinTai and the Transition from Late Prehistory to Early History in Central Thailand by T. Lertcharnrit;

Dvaravati Settlements on the Phetchaburi Palaeo-shoreline by P. Silapanth; The Culture of Vishnu OldCity (Beikthano) by San Shwe; Early Walled Sites of Dawei: Thagara and Mokti by E. Moore and Than

Swe; Under the Western Baray Waters by C. Pottier; Kerinci Archaeological Research in theHighlands of Jambi on Sumatra by D. Bonatz; Mediaeval Landfall Sites in Aceh, North Sumatra by E.Edwards McKinnon; Intrasite Analysis of 14th-Century Singapore by J.N. Miksic; The Greater AngkorProject 20052009: Issues and Program by R. Fletcher, D. Penny, M. Barbetti, C. Pottier, Heng Than,Khieu Chan and Tous Somaneath; The Hoabinhian: Early Evidencefor SE Asian Trade Networks? by S.Bowdler; Lowland-upland Interaction: The 35001500 BP Ceramic Evidence from the Peablanca CaveSites, Northeastern Luzon, Philippines by A.S.B. Mijares; Khao Sam Kaeo and the Upper ThaiPeninsula: Understanding the Mechanisms of Early Trans-Asiatic Trade and Cultural Exchange by B.

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Bellina and P. Silapanth; and Economic and Technological Change during the Middle and Late Holocenein the Lamoncong Highlands, South Sulawesi, Indonesia by D. Bulbeck.

BECK, MARGARET 2006. Midden ceramic assemblage formation: A case study fromKalinga, Philippines. American Antiquity 71: 27-51.

BENTLEY, R.A., M. PIETRUSEWSKY, M. DOUGLAS, and T. ATKINSON 2005.Matrilocality during the prehistoric transition to agriculture in Thailand? Antiquity 79: 865-81.

CHOI, KILDO and DUBEL DRIWANTORO 2007. Shell tool use by early members ofHomo erectus in Sangiran, central Java, Indonesia: cut mark evidence. Journal of ArchaeologicalScience 34: 48-58.

DEGROOT, VRONIQUE 2006. The archaeological remains of Ratu Boko: From SriLankan Buddhism to Hinduism. Indonesia and the Malay World34: 55-74.

FORESTIER, HUBERT, TRUMAN SIMANJUNTAK, DOMINIQUE GUILLAUD,DUBEL DRIWANTORO, KETUTWIRADNYANA, DARWIN SIREGAR, ROKUS

DUEAWE, AND BUDIMAN 2005. Le site de Tgi Ndrawa, le de Nias, Sumatra nord : lespremires traces dune occupation hoabinhienne en grotte en Indonsie. C. R. Palevol4: 727-33.

GUILLAUD, DOMINIQUE (ed) 2006. Menyelusuri Sungai, Merunut Waktu: PenelitianArkeologi di Sumatera Selatan. Jakarta: Puslitbang Arkeologi Nasional, Institute de recherchepour le Developpement, and EFEO.

JORDAAN, ROY 2006. Why the ailendras were not a Javanese dynasty. Indonesia and theMalay World34: 3-22.

KARLSTRM, ANNA 2005. Spiritual materiality:Heritage preservation in a Buddhist world?Journal of Social Archaeology 5: 338-55.

LANKTON, JAMES W. AND LAURE DUSSUBIEUX 2006. Early glass in Asian maritimetrade: A review and an interpretation of compositional analyses. Journal of Glass Studies 48:121-44.

LAPE, PETER 2005. Archaeological approaches to the study of Islam in Island Southeast Asia.Antiquity 79: 829-36.

LE THI LIEN 2006. Nghe thuat Phat giao & Hindu giao o dong bang song Cuu Long TruocThe Ky X (Buddhist and Hindu Art in the Cuu Long River Delta prior to 10th Century AD).Hanoi: The Gioi Publishing House. (Note: Please contact Le Thi Lienlelien_thi@hotmail.comtopurchase this book outside of Vietnam.)

O'REILLY, DOUGALD, ANGELA VON DEN DRIESCH and VUTHY VOEUN 2006.Archaeology and archaeozoology of Phum Snay: A late prehistoric cemetery in northwesternCambodia. Asian Perspectives 45: 188-211.

PEI-KAI CHENG (Chief Ed) 2005. Proceedings of the International Conference: ChineseExport Ceramics and Maritime Trade, 12th-15th Centuries. Hong Kong: Chinese CivilisationCentre, City University of Hong Kong & City University of Hong Kong InterdisciplinaryResearch Project.

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SIMANJUNTAK, TRUMAN, M. HISYAM, BAGYO PRASETYO, and TITI SURTINASTITI (eds) 2006.Archaeology: Indonesian Perspective, R.P. Soejono's Festschrift. Jakarta:Indonesian Institute of Science.

Contents: Prof. Dr. Dr. Hc. R.P. Soejono: Indonesian Archaeologist and Prehistorian by theChairman of the Indonesian Institute of Science; Editorial: Soejono and the Indonesian Archaeology by

T. Simanjuntak et al.; Prof. Dr. Dr. Hc. R.P. Soejono: Profesional yang Setia tanpa Pamrih by D.D.Bintarti; Soejonos Efforts in Starting Archaeological Research in Papua by W.G. Solheim II; TheSoejono I Know by J.T. Peralta; Bapak by R.P. Ugrasena Pranidhana; Mas Jono yang Saya Kenal byNoerhadi Magetsari; Kelompok Purbakala Sekitar Tahun Enampuluhan by Sri Soejatmi Satari; Prof.Dr. R.P. Soejono dan Cita-Cita Kemandirian Arkeologi Indonesia byNunus Supardi; Visi Bapak RadenPanji Soejono by Machi Suhadi; R.P.Soejono dan Perguruan SMA Ksatrya by M. Husseyn Umar;Together with Insan Arkeologi, Prof. Dr. R.P. Soejono Tracing Back the Past to the Future by AchmadCholid Sodrie; Sosok Prof. Dr. Raden Panji Soejono by H. Gunadi; Sosok Sang Dewa Prasejarah yangDisegani by Jatmiko; Not Until Five Times: A Test of Patience by Aliza Diniasti; Geological Evidencefor Quaternary Land Bridges in Insular Southeast Asia by H.D. Tjia; Environment ofEarly Man in Java

by A.A. Polhaupessy; Climate-Environment and Extreme Event since the Last Glacial Maximum: HumanOccupation and Dispersal Pattern in Indonesian Maritime Island by Wahyoe Soepri Hantoro; TheNanosomic and Microsomic Archeological and Living Populations of Indonesia by T. Jacob; Cranio-

Morphological Aspects of the Recent Discovery of Human Remains from Batujaya, West Java by HarryWidianto; Paleopathology: Humans Diseases in Archaeology by Etty Indriati; Palaeolithic Settlementsin the Southeast Asian Archipelagos: an Indonesian Perspective by F. Smah & A.-M.Smah;Discoveries of Palaeolithic Tools in Flores by Jatmiko; New Data for the Prehistoric Chronology ofSouth Sumatra by H. Forestier, Dubel Driwantoro, D. Guillaud, Budiman, and Darwin Siregar; Huntingand Gathering Subsistence at Mesolithic: the Reflection of Human Strategy by Sumijati Atmosudiro;Prehistoric Dwelling Caves in the Area of Tepian Langsat, Kutai Timur, East Kalimantan by H. Gunadi;Prehistoric Artifacts in Jakarta and Nearby by Ali Akbar; Advancement of Research on theAustronesian in Sulawesi by T. Simanjuntak; Prehistoric Research in the Northern Part of Sulawesi withSpecial Reference to Liang Sarru by Santoso Sugondho; A Picture of the Physical Environment of theWaruga Stone Grave Sites in the Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi by Dwi Yani Yuniawaty; Analysisof Glass from Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia by F.D. Bulbeck, Bagyo Prasetyo, J. N. Miksic, D.Barham R. & G.V. Hancock; A Role of Megalithic Culture in Indonesian Cultural History by BagyoPrasetyo; A Short Review on the Megalithic Functions in Indonesia by Luthfi Yondri; RecentDiscovered Burial Systems at Manikliyu, Bali by I Made Sutaba; Some Notes on the Megalithic Remainsin Padang Lawas by Sukawati Susetyo; Pottery from Gumuk Mas, a Technology of the Early MetalPeriod in East Java by Rr. Tri Wuryani; The Batujaya Pottery: Early Hindu Buddhist Pottery in WestJava by Eka Asih Putrina Taim; The Cultural Background of Indonesian Musical Instruments by P.E.J.Ferdinandus; The Ramayana in Archaeological and Historical Perspective: from Akhyana to Natya byTimbul Haryono; The Structure of Candi Gumpung at Muara Jambi by Hariani Santiko; A Bronze SivaMahadeva from Karangnongko by Endang Sri Hardiati Hanuman in the Art of East Java by M.J.Klokke; The Influence of Hindu-Buddhism on Javanese Culture and Society (Some Historical Notes FromSelected Sources) by Richadiana Kartakusuma; Old Sundanese Community by Titi Surti Nastiti;Sambas in the History of West Borneo by Bambang Budi Utomo; Archeological Findings Revealedsome Quranic Historical Narrations by Umar Anggara Jenie; The Contribution of Islamic Manuscriptsfor the Study of Islamic Archaeology by Uka Tjandrasasmita; French-Indonesian ArchaeologicalResearches in Bukit Hasang, Barus, North Sumatra Province by D. Perret & Heddy Surachman; Kudus:

the Past and the Present by InaJati Adrisijanti; Pegon Script, Identity and the Change of Santri Societyby M. Hisyam; A Brief Elaboration on Lay-Outs of Ancient Mosques and Traditional Houses in Kudusby Libra Hari Inagurasi; Port-Towns-Fortresses: Banten-Buton by Naniek Harkantiningsih Wibisono;The Pecinan in Welahan, Jepara by Sarjiyanto; Motivation and Materialization: Power, Kesaktian andthe Balinese Archaeological Record by J.W. Schoenfelder & E.A. Bacus; The Origins of Malagasy:Current Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence by Vida Verpaya Rusianti Kusmartono; Stone ChamberBurial (Leang Pa): a Living Megalithic Tradition in Tana Toraja, South S ulawesi by Retno Handini;Could Traditional Cultures Survive in our World that is more and more Globalised? by Edi Sedyawati;Recognition and Respect of Cultural Diversity: Acceptance of Cultural Diversity as a Key for

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Advancement and Welfare by J.T. Peralta; The Pattern of Conflict of Benefiting from Cultural Heritagesin Indonesia by Bambang Sulistyanto; Partnership in Cultural Resources Management: Empowering theStakeholders byNovida Abbas;

SINOPOLI, CARLA M., STEPHEN DUEPPEN, ROBERT BRUBAKER, CHRISTOPHEDESCANTES, MICHAEL D. GLASCOCK, WILL GRIFFIN, HECTOR NEFF, RASMI

SHOOCONGDEJ, and ROBERT J. SPEAKMAN 2006. Characterizing the stonewareDragon Jars in the Guthe Collection: Chemical, decorative, and formal patterning. AsianPerspectives 45: 240-82.

STARK, MIRIAM (ed) 2005. Archaeology of Asia. Oxford: Blackwell.Chapters on Southeast Asia: Some National, Regional, and Political Uses of Archaeology in

East and Southeast Asia by I. Glover; and Asian Farming Diasporas? Agriculture, Languages, and Genesin China and Southeast Asia by P. Bellwood.

THOMAS, RICHARD 2005. Philology in Viet Nam and its impact on Southeast Asian culturalhistory. Modern Asian Studies 39(2): 139.

JOURNAL & NEWSLETTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

KHAO CO HOC, Journal of the Institute of Archaeology in Viet Nam, will from this year (2006),have two series in English out of the total of six series per year. This may provide readers with abetter chance of keeping updated on archaeological activities and results in Vietnam and abroad.For further details, to submit a paper, or to offer to help in editing and review, please contact:tapchikhaoco@hotmail.com

THE H ERITAGE JOURNAL is an open-access e-Journal recently launched by SingaporesNational Heritage Board. It publishes research articles on the history, culture and the art practicesof Asia, with an emphasis on material culture, cultural resource management and museumpractice. As a Singapore-based publication, The Heritage Journal has a special focus on

Singapore and its surrounding region, but will address subjects with a wider Asian or globalrelevance. In addition to full-length research articles, The Heritage Journal will publishcollection, conservation and exhibition notes and reviews, with the goal of fostering research inareas of professional museum practice in the region.

The journal began life as Heritage, a publication of the Singapore National Museum in1977, and has its roots in the Bulletin of the Raffles Museum which began publishing onzoological subjects in 1936 and the Memoirs of the Raffles Museum, a series of monographswhich began publication in the 1950s. It has a multinational advisory board comprising ofacademics and museum professionals from Singapore and the region.

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INDONESIA, Cornell University Southeast Asia Programs journal is now available online. All

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THE I NTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIF IC STUDIES (IJAPS), an electronicjournal published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, is a scholarly, multidisciplinary,internationally refereed publication focusing primarily on Asia (West, South, Southeast and East),Australasia and the Pacific Rim regions of the Americas (North, Central and South). Thedisciplines of interest encompass politics, history, indigenous languages and literature, religion,man and the environment, ethno-history, anthropology, cultural heritage, socio-economic

development, war and conflict resolution, pre-history and archaeology, and the arts. IJAPSundertakes to publish articles based on original research of the highest scholarship. Scheduled fortwo issues per calendar year (May and November), each issue features articles andannouncements of academic-related events like workshops, seminars, conferences, etc.

IJAPS invites contributions of academic-oriented papers (between 10,000-12,000 words),and welcomes brief notes (max. 500 words) on upcoming academic events (for example call forpapers, conferences, seminars, workshops, etc.), progress reports on research projects (max. 1000words), and announcements of new publications). Contact person/website for further informationto be included in the announcement. Materials deemed inappropriate shall be rejected. Forfurther details, visit: www.usm.my/ijaps/

JOURNAL OF AUSTRONESIAN STUDIES (JAS) is a refereed journal published biannually,

beginning June 2005, by the National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan, Republic of China. JAS isdevoted to the study of Austronesian societies from archaeological, anthropological, biologicalanthropological, and linguistic perspectives. Published both in Chinese and English, JASwelcomes contributions from domestic and in