www.vientianetimes.org.la Archaeology in Laos: Excavating in Sepon, Savannakhet with Dr Nigel Chang Digging Through History Joining an Archaeological Dig in Laos Nestled away amongst the tress of a small Savannakhet hilltop a group of Lao and International archaeological excavators excitedly worked away. There was a buzz in the air of Peun Baolo, their tireless work had uncovered something special, an ancient burial site containing substantial historical artefacts. Join archaeologist Dr Nigel Chang as he talks about the dig, his love of archaeology and the exciting frontier that is archaeology in Laos Music "Prelude No. 7" by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com) "Laserdisc" by Chris Zabriskie (http
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Joyce White, co-Director of the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP), talks about the origins of the project and gives an overview of the test excavations the team has conducted at a series of cave/rockshelter sites in northern Laos since 2007. Dr. White is interviewed during the 2010 season at a cave called Tham An Mah near a village called Ban Xieng Mouk just outside of Luang Prabang. The excavation yielded several important Iron Age discoveries that will shed light on MMAP's research on human prehistory in this under-studied region of the world.
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This footage is from the Spring 2008 expedition to the village Tham Vang Ta Leow, Laos for a test survey conducted by the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP). The purpose of this survey was to find evidence that humans inhabited a rock shelter situated along one of the Mekong River's tributaries during the Middle Holocene Period. For more information visit: www.museum.upenn.edu
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This footage was taken during the 2005 archaeological expedition to Laos undertaken by the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP). For more information, please visit: www.musuem.upenn.edu/mmap
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Dr. Joyce White, Associate Curator of the Asian Section, University of Pennsylvania. Discussing Penn's Luce Program for Asian Archaeology. For more information on the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) please visit the website at: penn.museum/sites/mmap
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Welcome to Archae-Facts, the place to find bite-sized chunks of Archaeological Trivia! Today we hear how white elephants were a blessing and a curse.
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Middle Mekong Archaeological Project - Natural Scene Design used to overlay a map onto SRTM data and show archaeological sites in Northern Laos
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sito archeologico www.panoramio.com
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Laotian American poet Bryan Thao Worra peforms a poem at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota reflecting on time, space, history, language and the moon.
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About the Talk Dr. Leedom Lefferts and Louise Allison Cort (Curator, Asian Ceramics, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution) conducted an intensive study of the indigenous production of earthenware and stoneware pottery by surveying over 200 locations in mainland Southeast Asia (including Southern Yunnan, China, but excluding Myanmar (Burma). They preliminarily charted six types of earthenware and two types of stoneware production across the region and have presented and published over a dozen papers on the subject. This presentation summarizes their research findings and emphasizes three issues: the natureof the research as "ethno-archaeological method"; "embodied" behavior as indicative of cultural continuity and change, vis-à-vis pot form and decoration (and the difficulties associated with making archaeological discoveries in this domain); and the impact of these findings on the understandings of accepted Southeast Asian linguistic, political, and socio-organizational mapped boundaries. It is through their research findings that they propose a history of technological production behaviors that will begin to provide a nuanced understanding of contact and migration across the diverse landscape that is mainland Southeast Asia. About the Speaker Dr. Leedom Lefferts is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. He is working on a volume describing and analyzing the context of the unique long painted Vessantara scroll ...
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Ban Chiang denotes an archeological site located in Nong Han district, Udon Thani Province, Thailand. Discovered in 1957, the Ban Chiang Archaeological site attracted enormous publicity due to its distinctive red painted pottery. During the first formal scientific excavation in 1967, archaeologists unearthed several skeletons, together with bronze grave gifts. Rice fragments have also been found, leading to the belief that the Bronze Age settlers probably had been farmers. The site's oldest graves absence of bronze artifacts led archaeologists to conclude that the site dates to the Neolithic period; the most recent graves date to the Iron Age. The dating of the artifacts using the thermo luminescence technique resulted in 4420 BCE - 3400 BCE dates. That positioned Ban Chiang as the earliest Bronze Culture site in the world.
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About the Talk Dr. Leedom Lefferts and Louise Allison Cort (Curator, Asian Ceramics, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution) conducted an intensive study of the indigenous production of earthenware and stoneware pottery by surveying over 200 locations in mainland Southeast Asia (including Southern Yunnan, China, but excluding Myanmar (Burma). They preliminarily charted six types of earthenware and two types of stoneware production across the region and have presented and published over a dozen papers on the subject. This presentation summarizes their research findings and emphasizes three issues: the natureof the research as "ethno-archaeological method"; "embodied" behavior as indicative of cultural continuity and change, vis-à-vis pot form and decoration (and the difficulties associated with making archaeological discoveries in this domain); and the impact of these findings on the understandings of accepted Southeast Asian linguistic, political, and socio-organizational mapped boundaries. It is through their research findings that they propose a history of technological production behaviors that will begin to provide a nuanced understanding of contact and migration across the diverse landscape that is mainland Southeast Asia. About the Speaker Dr. Leedom Lefferts is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. He is working on a volume describing and analyzing the context of the unique long painted Vessantara scroll ...
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About the Talk Dr. Leedom Lefferts and Louise Allison Cort (Curator, Asian Ceramics, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution) conducted an intensive study of the indigenous production of earthenware and stoneware pottery by surveying over 200 locations in mainland Southeast Asia (including Southern Yunnan, China, but excluding Myanmar (Burma). They preliminarily charted six types of earthenware and two types of stoneware production across the region and have presented and published over a dozen papers on the subject. This presentation summarizes their research findings and emphasizes three issues: the natureof the research as "ethno-archaeological method"; "embodied" behavior as indicative of cultural continuity and change, vis-à-vis pot form and decoration (and the difficulties associated with making archaeological discoveries in this domain); and the impact of these findings on the understandings of accepted Southeast Asian linguistic, political, and socio-organizational mapped boundaries. It is through their research findings that they propose a history of technological production behaviors that will begin to provide a nuanced understanding of contact and migration across the diverse landscape that is mainland Southeast Asia. About the Speaker Dr. Leedom Lefferts is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. He is working on a volume describing and analyzing the context of the unique long painted Vessantara scroll ...
Tags :pottery, mainland, Southeast Asia (Region), Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, ethnoarchaeology, archaeology, anthropology

About the Talk Dr. Leedom Lefferts and Louise Allison Cort (Curator, Asian Ceramics, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution) conducted an intensive study of the indigenous production of earthenware and stoneware pottery by surveying over 200 locations in mainland Southeast Asia (including Southern Yunnan, China, but excluding Myanmar (Burma). They preliminarily charted six types of earthenware and two types of stoneware production across the region and have presented and published over a dozen papers on the subject. This presentation summarizes their research findings and emphasizes three issues: the natureof the research as "ethno-archaeological method"; "embodied" behavior as indicative of cultural continuity and change, vis-à-vis pot form and decoration (and the difficulties associated with making archaeological discoveries in this domain); and the impact of these findings on the understandings of accepted Southeast Asian linguistic, political, and socio-organizational mapped boundaries. It is through their research findings that they propose a history of technological production behaviors that will begin to provide a nuanced understanding of contact and migration across the diverse landscape that is mainland Southeast Asia. About the Speaker Dr. Leedom Lefferts is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. He is working on a volume describing and analyzing the context of the unique long painted Vessantara scroll ...
Tags :pottery, mainland, Southeast Asia (Region), Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, ethnoarchaeology, archaeology, anthropology

About the Talk Dr. Leedom Lefferts and Louise Allison Cort (Curator, Asian Ceramics, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution) conducted an intensive study of the indigenous production of earthenware and stoneware pottery by surveying over 200 locations in mainland Southeast Asia (including Southern Yunnan, China, but excluding Myanmar (Burma). They preliminarily charted six types of earthenware and two types of stoneware production across the region and have presented and published over a dozen papers on the subject. This presentation summarizes their research findings and emphasizes three issues: the natureof the research as "ethno-archaeological method"; "embodied" behavior as indicative of cultural continuity and change, vis-à-vis pot form and decoration (and the difficulties associated with making archaeological discoveries in this domain); and the impact of these findings on the understandings of accepted Southeast Asian linguistic, political, and socio-organizational mapped boundaries. It is through their research findings that they propose a history of technological production behaviors that will begin to provide a nuanced understanding of contact and migration across the diverse landscape that is mainland Southeast Asia. About the Speaker Dr. Leedom Lefferts is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore. He is working on a volume describing and analyzing the context of the unique long painted Vessantara scroll ...
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This inaugural installment of the Video News from TAC features a tour of Thailand's cultural heritage by ALI videographer, Teal Greyhavens. From Chiang Mai in the north to the islands around Koh Chang in the south, this tour features the Hmong, Yao and Akha hill tribes; spectacular Buddhist temples; bathing elephants; traditional food production and marketing; and the monuments of the capitol, Bangkok. Thailand is a country whose past and present coalesce in the lives of its people and the environment they have managed for many centuries.
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Early Rice Cultivation and Civilization of the Hmong-Mien speaking people. Daxi Culture Daxi sites are typified by the presence of dou (cylindrical bottles), white pan (plates), and red pottery. The Daxi people cultivated rice extensively. Daxi sites were some of the earliest in China to show evidence of moats and walled settlements. The Daxi culture showed evidence of cultural interactions with the Yangtze River Delta region. The white pan artefacts from the culture were discovered at several Yangtze River Delta sites, including the type site at Majiabang. Conversely, jade artefacts at Daxi sites show possible influence from the Yangtze River Delta region. The Daxi culture was followed by the Qujialing culture. The Daxi culture (大溪文化) (5000 BC- 3000 BC) was a Neolithic culture centered in the Three Gorges region, around the middle Yangtze River, China. The culture ranged from western Hubei to eastern Sichuan and the Pearl River Delta. The site at Daxi, located in the Qutang Gorge around Wushan, Chongqing, was discovered by Nels C. Nelson in the 1920s. In 2007, Many key archaeological sites from the Daxi culture, including the site at Daxi were destroyed by the completion of the Three Gorges Dam. The Hmong-Mien ancient culture disappeared under water. Another huge tragic to the Hmong people and historians after thousand of years of searching for answers. According to this website: history.cultural-china.com "The Daxi culture was contemporary with the Yangshao culture ...
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This VIDEO / SONG SOUNDS BEST WHEN VIEWED IN HD (High Definition-the hottest video resolution). We use HD to give you the best Christian music video experience possible. ‪‪www.BrandtMorain.com‬‬ A free MP3 of this Christian song is available for free download at our website in the best music format possible (True CD quality -- 320Kbps). YouTube formats do NOT give you the best music video quality. YouTube is not CD quality. Sample audio of our other songs are also available. Band Group Details: Our new Debut CD "Volume One" has received great reviews and articles/airplay from Music Review, USA Today, The Manning Report with Dr. James Manning, Alternative Press Magazine as well as contributing writers for top publications such as Rolling Stone Magazine. Our album has received substantial Radio Airplay in Phoenix AZ and Albany NY as the official music for two radio talk shows on stations KFNX 100 and Talk 1300 AM. The video "Rule of Man" has exploded worldwide. Foreign websites in more than 8 different languages are playing "Rule of Man". Brandt Morain "Volume One" is comprised of multiple genres including 1970-80's style Rock, Country, A Capella, Christian / Religious, a song that makes fun of Rap, Easy Listening and a few recordings that defy categorization. In order to bring you the best Christian music possible, our recording philosophy omits recording industry "innovations" such as Autotune. These devices damage a recording artists performance in our opinion, producing ...
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The Temples of Anchor What in Cambodia. A continuation of my Siem Reap video.
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