July 2013 Archeology - Asia and the South Pacific

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Australia
A pre-Cook caucasian (maybe) skull find in Australia is causing a rethink/kerfuffle:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/ancient-skull-could-rewrite-history.htm

Pakistan
Al Jinnah’s last residence in Baluchistan has been destroyed by militants:
http://beta.dawn.com/news/1018372/bomb-attack-destroys-quaids-residency-in-ziarat

Vietnam
A 700 years b.p. shipwreck off the coast of Vietnam:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/353794

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China
Some 5000 years b.p. scratches on stone from China are being interpreted as writing:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/5-000-year-old-primitive-writing-generates-debate-china-6C10610754

A museum in Hebei was shut down when it turned out most of its artifacts were fakes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jul/17/jibaozhai-museum-closed-fakes-china

Some painted bronze items from some Western Zhou tombs in Hubei:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2013-07/09/c_132523958.htm

From the same area and time period comes a two-faced Bronze head:
http://www.ecns.cn/2013/07-20/73895.shtml

Nepal
Remains dating back to 1300 B.C./B.C.E. in Lumbini):
http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Remains+of+1300+BC+village%E2%80%9A+pre-Ashokan+shrines+in+Lumbini&NewsID=382853

Vietnam
They’re finding artifacts on that 700 years b.p. shipwreck off Vietnam which we mentioned a few weeks ago:
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/78626/antiquities-discovered-around-the-700-year-old-wreck.html

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Finds along the Silk Road which predate it by a millenium or so:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/799018.shtml#.UfJ_mI0qba5

China
Interesting genetic fallout from those finds from Tianyuan Cave:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/07/2013718134940330104.html