http://archaeology.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:13:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Daud Aris Tanudirjo In the Archaeological history, landscape has always been considered as an important aspect in giving meaning to an artefact or a site. It provides a condition by which archaeologists can contextualized their findings. Even in the end of 19th Century, a pioneer of field archaeology, General ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2009/08/23/cultural-landscape-of-heritage-management-in-indonesia-an-archaeological-perspective/ BACKGROUND It is increasingly difficult for prehistorians working in the twenty-first century to conceptualise the problems experienced by their predecessors, and approaches to interpretation before the 1960s are consistently criticised. Culture history and diffusionism may - with hindsight - seem excessively preoccupied with classification and social evolution, and to have ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2009/08/23/dating-in-archaeology/ The Floor Plan: Does it Reveal a Temple with a Human Form? The greatest secret of King Solomon’s temple is that it may have been constructed in the hidden form of a human body. Its architectural floor plan, in conjunction with the arrangement of its furnishings, reveals a “Temple Man” composed ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/10/10/king-solomons-temple-secrets/ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia(Redirected from Ancient egypt) Khafre’s Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c.2500 BC or perhaps earlier)     Ancient Egypt was a long-standing civilization in north-eastern Africa. It was concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River, reaching its greatest extent in the second ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/05/ancient-egypt/ Ruins of Machu Picchu     The ruins of Machu Picchu, rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist Hiram Bingham, are one of the most beautiful and enigmatic ancient sites in the world. While the Inca people certainly used the Andean mountain top (9060 feet elevation), erecting many hundreds of stone structures from ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/05/machu-picchu-peru/ Candi Belahan, on the eastern slope of Mt Penanggungan, is traditionally believed to be a memorial to King Airlangga. Seen above, statues of the goddesses Sri and Lakshmi are still at the site. Originally they flanked the central image of Wisnu on Garuda, now on display at the Trowulan Museum. The ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/04/airlangga/         The archaeological sites of Majapahit consist, for the most part, of the remains of religious foundations, or candi, built usually from stone or brick. From the two most important and informative literary sources dealing with the history of Majapahit, the Nagarakertagama and Pararaton, we learn that a large ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/04/the-temple-of-majapahit/ The extensive ruins of 8 th century Candi Sewu, near Yogyakarta visible in the distance is the spire of the Shiwa temple at Prambanan.     The kingdom of Majapahit, with its capital in East Java, flourished at the end of what is known as Indonesia’s ‘classical age’. This was a ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/04/memory-of-majapahit/ Majapahit        The city of Majapahit prospered during the fourteenth century and was the largest of the old cities on Java. In comparison with Sriwijaya it is well documented, especially because of the work of Prapanca, the Nagarakrtagama, translated and commented upon by various scholars among others N.J. Krom, W.F. ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/04/trowulans-agriculture/ Wildmen of Malayasia and Indonesia     In 1969, John McKinnon, who journeyed to Borneo to observe orangutans, came across some humanlike footprints. McKinnon asked his Malay boatman what made them. "Without a moment’ a hesitation he replied ‘Batutut,’" wrote McKinnon, "but when I asked him to describe the beast he said ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/03/living-ape-men/ by Sri Wahyuni, The Jakarta Post, April 9, 2005     Magelang, Central Java (Indonesia) — It is possible that the Buddha statue withdrawn last week from an auction at Christie’s in New York, following a request from the government of Indonesia, might have originated from the famous Borobudur temple in Central ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/03/statue-in-auction-may-be-from-borobudur/     In the early 1990s Hetty Jo Brumbach and Robert Jarvenpa embarked on a new phase of ethnoarchaeological research that focused on gender dynamics. Realizing that archaeological treatments of women’s and men’s roles had not kept pace with the burgeoning work on gender relations, sexual stratification and related issues in ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/03/ethnoarchaeology-and-gender/ Torajan Ancestral Houses     I chose Southeast Asia and Indonesia for this research because this area is well-known for the importance of feasting in its many traditional societies, and many accounts of feasts describe them as being given entirely for prestige, or "merit," either in this world or the afterworld. Thus, ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2008/06/03/ethnoarchaeology-in-indonesia/     The term Hoabinhian was first used by French archaeologists working in northern Vietnam to describe Holocene period archaeological assemblages excavated from rock shelters. It has become a common term to describe stone artefact assemblages in Southeast Asia that contain flaked cobble artefacts. The term was originally used to refer ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2007/11/25/hoabinhian/ Prambanan temple is extraordinarily beautiful building constructed in the tenth century during the reigns of two kings namely Rakai Pikatan and Rakai Balitung. Soaring up to 47 meters (5 meters higher than Borobudur temple), the foundation of this temple has fulfilled the desire of the founder to show Hindu triumph ... http://archaeology.blogsome.com/2007/11/25/prambanan-temple-is-extraordinarily-beautiful-building/