New Excavations in Kuumbi Cave
New Excavations in Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar August 17, 2016 A multidisciplinary team of scientists recently excavated one of Zanzibar’s most important caves, revealing a complex human occupation history over the last 18,000 years. Initial occupations by Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers ranged between ~18,000 – 13,000 years ago. Later peoples inhabited the cave in the late […]
Bristol Europrojects meeting
Participants in 4 major Euro funded projects undertaking work in Africa (shown in the photo above) met as part of the 11th Annual African Archaeology Research Day Conference in Bristol, 21-22 November. The projects included: The ERC-funded Trans-SAHARA Project The Marie Curie-funded EUROTAST Project The ERC-funded Crossroads of Empires Project And the ERC-funded Sealinks Project. The […]
Sealinks book publication
Dr. Tom Hoogervorst, the first DPhil student on the Sealinks Project, has recently published a monograph with Archaeopress, Oxford. The book, entitled Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World, presents the results of his ERC-funded DPhil studies at the University of Oxford as part of the Sealinks Project. Dr. Hoogervorst is continuing his research […]
Science feature on Sealinks conference
The Sealinks conference held in November 2013 is covered in this week’s issue of Science. The 27 June issue of the journal features an article by science writer Andrew Lawler on the Sealinks Project and its conference Proto-Globalisation in the Indian Ocean World, held at the Ashmolean Museum and Jesus College Oxford, November 7-10. To […]
Sealinks conference podcast
Public lectures by Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Dr. Nicole Boivin, Professor Mark Horton and Dr. J.D. Hill at the Ashmolean Museum are now available here. The talks were presented as part of the opening of the Proto-Globalisation in the Indian Ocean World Conference on 7 November. Click on play button below to listen: Presentations included: […]
Sri Lankan CCF to make documentary on Sealinks
The Central Cultural Fund (CCF), Sri Lanka, is making a documentary on the joint CCF-Sealinks excavations undertaken at the southern port site of Kirinda in spring, 2013. A trailer for the documentary can be seen here.
Sealinks invite to Buckingham Palace
Sealinks PI Nicole Boivin talks about her visit to Buckingham Palace and the Sealinks Project in a recent edition of the Jesus College Alumni newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter piece.
Sealinks workshop covered in Azania
The Sealinks Project workshop “East Africa in the Indian Ocean II”, held in Oxford 22-23 March 2012, has been reviewed in a recent story in the African archaeology journal Azania (2012, Volume 47(2), pages 226-30). The piece, by Professor Peter Mitchell of Oxford University, describes it as “a highly productive as well as convivial workshop, conducted in […]
Sealinks thesis long-listed for ICAS Prize
Dr. Tom Hoogervorst’s recently finished D.Phil thesis has been long-listed for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) PhD Prize 2013. The thesis, entitled Southeast Asia in the Ancient Indian Ocean World: Combining Historical Linguistic and Archaeological Approaches (2012), was completed by Dr. Hoogervorst as part of the Sealinks Project. Dr. Hoogervorst’s research was funded through the European Research […]
Wenner Gren award for Oxford conference bursaries
Generous funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation has been awarded to support the participation of scholars from the developing world in the Proto-Globalisation in the Indian Ocean World Conference. This includes two bursaries for early career researchers, to be awarded through an open competition. The bursaries will cover travel to Oxford, accommodation (5 nights), subsistence and […]
