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Timor cave may reveal how humans reached Australia
22 December 2006 (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald) – It’s rare to hear about archaeological information from East Timor (Timor Leste). This one reports of the Jerimalai site, which was inhabited as far...
View ArticleLinkdump Feb 01-13, 2011
Here’s a list of archaeology stories from Southeast Asia that I missed out on over the last two weeks. Most prominently has been the eruption of fighting between the military forces of Cambodia and...
View ArticleStone faces found in Timor cave
Researchers working in the Lene Hara Cave in eastern tip of East Timor have reported a previously-undiscovered set of stone carvings of faces. U/Th dating of the petroglyphs put them to be between...
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Set Square
Elena Piotto The Australian National University Matja Kuru 2 in Timor-Leste. The initial phase of an excavation commences when squares are set out. This photo shows the old pit (from a previous field...
View ArticleLargest-ever rat fossils discovered in East Timor
Very pleased to see my former colleagues at the ANU featured in this news – the discovery of the largest rat fossils ever, from East Timor. The largest to have existed – giant rat fossils ANU, 06...
View ArticleA Dong Son drum in East Timor
A hint into the potential archaeology from East Timor – the discovery of a bronze Dong Son drum in Baucau. There have been several such drums found in East Timor now, and similar drums turn up all over...
View ArticleNew issue of Asian Perspectives-Volume 55, Number 2, 2016
The latest issue of Asian Perspectives is out, with papers on the East Timor and Indonesia, and recent obituaries. (via ISEAA) 10.1353/asi.2016.0017 Source: Project MUSE – Asian Perspectives-Volume 55,...
View ArticleNew Paper: Rock art and the colonisation of Southeast Asia
Over the past decade, archaeologists have been able to directly date rock art, particularly in Island Southeast Asia at sites in East Kalimantan, East Timor and South Sulawesi. The dates of rock art...
View Article[Paper] Ideology, Ritual Performance and Its Manifestations in the Rock Art...
New paper on newly-discovered rock art on Kisar Island, Indonesia by O’Connor et al. published in the Cambridge Archaeology Journal. What’s really interesting in this paper is the fact that the...
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