SAA 85th Annual Meeting Austin, Texas US
22nd-26th April 2020, Austin Convention Center (site) (Cancelled due to Covid-19)
- Benjamin Utting will present a poster on: Tropical Forager Palaeoecology at the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam (abstract)
- Ben Marwick & Benjamin Utting will run a workshop entitled: A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Statistics for Archaeologists (abstract)
8th Meeting of the ICAZ Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics and Morphometrics (AGPM) Working Group
17th-18th of October 2019, Natural History Museum of Paris (site)
- Ruairidh Macleod et al. will present a poster on: Preservation Pre-ZooMS Results? Collagen peptide preservation and recovery from problematic bone (abstract)
INQUA Congress 2019
27th-31st July 2019, Dublin, Ireland
- Evan Hill et al. will present a poster on: Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of four shell midden sequences in caves within the Trang An Massif, northern Vietnam
- Shawn O’Donnell et al. will present a poster on: SUNDASIA’s palaeoenvironmental and archaeological evidence for Holocene marine inundation of the sub-coastal Trang An massif karst, Ninh Binh, Vietnam.
3rd SEAMEO SPAFA International Conference on Southeast Asian Archaeology
17th-21st June 2019, Bangkok, Thailand
- Rachael Holmes will be presenting on: Phytolith Analysis of Đa Bút and Phùng Nguyên Cave Sites in Tràng An, Northern Vietnam in Session 04 ‘Current State of Archaeobotanical Research in Southeast Asia’ (abstract)
Conference on Past Plant Diversity Changes
1-5th October 2018, Rabat, Morocco (site)
- Shawn O’Donnell presented on: SUNDASIA – Evidence for the refugial nature of limestone forest biota on the Trang An Massif karst, Ninh Binh province, Vietnam (abstract)
International Symposium for the Conservation, Research and Sustainable Development of Pre-Historic Heritage, Beijing
10-14th October 2018, Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, Beijing
- Thorsten Kahlert presented on: The use of immersive visual technology in the promotion and conservation of prehistoric encultured landscapes: A case study from the Tràng An World Heritage property, Ninh Binh, Vietnam (abstract)
International Aerial Archaeology Conference AARG 2018
12-14th September 2018, Venice
- Thorsten Kahlert presented on: Small drone – large impact: modelling a tower karst landscape with a pocket-sized UAV (abstract)
Adaptation et durabilite des societes prehistoriques et protohistoriques face aux variations climatiques
18th Congress of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques – UISPP)
4-9th June 2018, Université Paris, Paris
- Chris Stimpson presented on: Spatial and temporal trends in late Pleistocene hunting behaviour in limestone karsts in Northern Vietnam: evidence from the Tràng An World Heritage Area (abstract)
Asian Archaeology Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
14th May 2018, Department of Archaeology
- Ben Utting presented on: Crude and colorless or Expedient and Enduring? Identifying, Describing, and Interpreting Variability in Prehistoric Southeast Asian Stone Tool Technology
Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders: The Transition from Foraging to Farming in Northern Vietnam and Southern China
10-11th May 2018 School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Fiona Coward presented on: SUNDASIA: recent fieldwork, human-environment interaction and prehistoric social networks in the Tràng An region of northern Vietnam
- Shawn O’Donnell presented on: Reconstructing mid-Holocene palaeoenvironments in northern Vietnam
Palaeolithic & Mesolithic Discussion Group, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
27th October 2017, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
- Ryan Rabett presented on: Human adaptation to coastal evolution in Southeast Asia (SUNDASIA): Preliminary results from the first year of work
SUNDASIA Project: International Workshop
On 18th and 19th March 2017, the SUNDASIA Project ran a very successful international workshop, hosted by the Tràng An Management Board and Ninh Binh People’s Committee, at the Bai Dinh Hotel, Ninh Binh.
With the Project’s aims of exploring how early humans adapted to cycles of past sea-level change in this part of Southeast Asia and through these data assist in responses to modern climate-change and sea-level rise, presentations were made across a range of fields: including geology, archaeology, environment and climate studies, biodiversity, and public engagement.
The meeting was attended by senior representatives from the Tràng An Management Board, Ninh Binh People’s Committee, Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism, the Vietnamese Institute of Archaeology, Vietnamese Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources, and the in-coming Vietnamese Ambassador to UNESCO. Five invited specialists with expertise in insular archaeology, Southeast Asian archaeology, biodiversity, curatorial conservation, and World Heritage provided constructive assessments about the strengths of the project and challenges that it faces.
Several positive lines of discussion emerged from the meeting (e.g. in terms of curatorial conservation, exhibitions, and local collaborations). A stand-out result came in the area of biodiversity conservation. Evidence that the project has published about the long-term (tens of thousands of years) stability of limestone forest habitat here through significant wider climatic and environmental changes, together with the prehistoric record of animal in Tràng An offers real potential for the successful re-introduction and survival for locally endangered species, such as Delacour’s Langur. Informal collaborative commitment agreed between the SUNDASIA Project, IUCN and the Tràng An Management Board at this workshop marks an exciting development towards the Project’s goal of bridging past and present. Such collaboration and support is especially important for the Tràng An Management Board to help deliver successful conservation results in this new World Heritage landscape.
Ryan Rabett, SUNDASIA Project (PI) 27.03.17
Dr Tran Tan Van (Project CI and Director, Vietnamese Institute of Geosciences & Mineral Resources) answering questions about the geology of the Tràng An World Heritage site (Photo: T. Kahlert).
Dr Natalie Ludgate (Queen Mary University of London) presenting on a method for the high resolution reconstruction of past monsoon cycles (Photo: T. Kahlert).
Benjamin Utting (PhD student, University of Cambridge) presenting on the enigma of the Hoabinhian archaeological culture (Photo: T. Kahlert).
Dr Christopher Stimpson (Queen’s University Belfast, Project Site Director), presenting on the animal bone remains recovered from archaeological sites in Tràng An and identified using the collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Photo: T. Kahlert).
Dr Fiona Coward (Project CI, senior lecturer Bournemouth University) and Dr Thomas Leppard (invited archaeological expert, University of Cambridge) at Hang Moi cave during the workshop field excursion into Tràng An (Photo: T. Kahlert).
SUNDASIA International Workshop delegates (Photo: T. Kahlert).
(Featured image: Bai Dinh Hotel conference venue – R. Rabett)
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