Links

ARCHY 325/525: Archaeology of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific

University of Washington—Winter 2006

 

 

Other web sites of interest:

Please send me your suggestions. This list will be expanded during the quarter.

 

Check Peter Loud’s map website for Indonesia, the Philippines and other maps. Omnimap has a huge selection of maps from all over the world (to purchase). The Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas maintains a good selection of on-line maps, world-wide, contemporary and historical.

 

The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association holds conferences and produces a journal of archaeology in Asia and the Pacific.

A few of the websites covering Pacific archaeology include the University of Oregon, the Oceanic Archaeology Lab at UC Berkeley, and the Australian National University. This website also has some information on Indonesian archaeology. For more about Micronesia, Felicia Beardsley’s Micronesian Diary includes some archaeology and this website has great info on traditional Micronesian navigation.  The University of Guam has an extensive list of links for all sorts of information on Micronesia.

For SE Asia, The University of Pennsylvania Museum offers a Southeast Asian Archaeology Bibliographic Database and this website: http://www.abia.net/ has a searchable art and archaeology index.  Our UW library has a Southeast Asia section offering reference service and the UW Southeast Asia Center offers interesting lectures and events. See also my links page on my Indonesia archaeology website for other links, not all archaeological. 

 

The journal Nature maintains an excellent site about the early hominid finds from Flores, with links to news and scientific articles.

 

This UNEP Islands site has basic informational and statistical data on islands around the world. It covers things like geology, basic environmental data, geography, and population, as well as indices for isolation and human impact.

 

For info on Thor Heyerdahl and his theories, check out the Kon Tiki Museum website.

 

 

List of some journals that include Asia Pacific archaeology, ethnography and history:

 

Available on-line through the UW library website:
Archaeology in Oceania (Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania)
Asian Perspectives (archaeology of Asia/Pacific region)

World Archaeology

Available at the UW library:

Berita Penelitian Arkeologi (Indonesian and English language articles on archaeology in Indonesia)

Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde (Indonesian history and ethnography, most articles in English)
Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

Cakalele (focus on the Maluku region of Indonesia, including archaeology, no longer published)   
Journal of the Malay (Malaysian)  Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Journal of the Polynesian Society
Majalah Arkeologi (UW library has a couple of volumes)

Modern Quaternary Research in Southeast Asia. (monograph series) V 1-, 1975-  
Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society

Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Sarawak Museum Journal
Journal of the Siam Society
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsletter (now via email, soon to be on-line)
South-East Asian Studies Newsletter (British Institute in South-East Asia)
Journal of Southeast Asian History

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies