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Altaï : Mission archéologique française en Asie Centrale. Art rupestre et tombes gelées au Kazakhstan et en Sibérie (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
altai/index.html

A major new megalithic complex in Europe (Turkey) (published by Rabia Erdogu in Antiquity Vol 77 No 297 September 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/erdogu/erdogu.html

Amuq Valley Regional Projects, The (Turkey)
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/AMU/Amuq.html

Ancient Chinese Archaeology and Artifacts
http://www.crystalinks.com/chinartifacts.html

Ancient Chinese Rice Archaeology Project
http://www.carleton.ca/~bgordon/Rice

Ancient Pottery of the Pacific Rim
http://www.workingdogweb.com/Pottery.htm

An Extensive Middle Palaeolithic Quarry Landscape in the Kaladgi Basin, Southern India (by Michael D. Petraglia, Ravi Korisettar, Michael Noll & Joseph Schulderein - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 295 March 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Petraglia/Petraglia.html

Anghilak cave, Uzbekistan: documenting Neandertal occupation at the periphery (by Michelle Glantz, Rustam Suleymanov, Peter Hughes & Angela Schauber - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 295 March 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Glantz/glantz.html

Angkor Vat, Cambodia (and surrrounding temples)
http://www.angkorvat.com/

A page for Philippines Prehistory
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5727/

APSARA, Autorité pour la Protection du Site et l'Aménagement de la Région d'Angkor (in french, english and Khmer)

http://www.autoriteapsara.org/

Archaeological sites : Asian sites (from the E-Museum of the Minnesota State University)
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/asia.html

Archaeology of Quanzhou (China)
http://www2.arts.ubc.ca/anso/pearson/quanzhou/

Archaeology photos by Peter Langer : Asia (Angkor, Bagan, Ancient Buddhism, China, India, South East Asia)
http://archaeologyphotos.com/asia.htm

Artifacts or Geofacts? Alternative Interpretations of Items from the Gulf of Cambay (India)
http://www.intersurf.com/~chalcedony/geofact.shtml

Asian Historical Architecture
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/

Asian/Pacific Studies Subject-Oriented Bibliographies
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLBibl.html

Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales (European program, set up at the Université Libre de Bruxelles)
http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/apft/index.html

Ban Chiang project (Thailand; University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology)
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Asia/
banchiang.shtml

Ban Wang Hi : la fin des temps préhistoriques en Thaïlande du Nord
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
thai/index.html

Beads collection
http://www.alang.ukm.my/kamal/bead.htm

Borneo Webring - 1 site .
http://nav.webring.com/cgi-bin/navcgi?ring=borneowr;list

Buddhism Chronology (part of the The Web Chronology Project, Chicago North Park University)
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Buddhism.html

Burials and Fortresses of North Periphery of the Silk Road (Russia)
http://www2.usu.ru/arch_laboratory/eng/report/frames.htm

Cambodia Tales (Lower Mekong archaeological project)
http://www.btinternet.com/~andy.brouwer/aborei.htm

Cave paintings of India
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rockpain/index.htm

China and East Asia Chronology (part of the The Web Chronology Project, Chicago North Park University)
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/China/China.html

Coombsweb ANU Social Sciences / Asian Studies server
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombsHome.html

Current Middle & Upper Palaeolithic Research in the Southern Caucasus (by Nicholaz Tushabramishvili, Daniel S. Adler, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Anna Belfer-Cohen - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 295 March 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/Adler/adler.html

Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
http://www.efeo.fr/

Excavations at the Buddhist monastic site of Bhasu Vihara, Bangladesh (by Monica L. Smith, Jaharul Hoque & Nilka Dabare - published in Antiquity Vol 78 No 300 June 2004)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/smith/index.html

Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India (by Shanti Pappu, Yanni Gunnell, Maurice Taieb, Jean-Philippe Brugal, K. Anupama, Raman Sukumar & Kumar Akhilesh - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 297 September 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/pappu/pappu.html

Exploration and Survey of Pleistocene Hominid Sites in Armenia and Karabagh (by T. King, Y. Fernandez-Jalvo, N. Moloney, P. Andrews, A. Melkonyan, P. Ditchfield, L. Yepiskoposyan & S. Karapetyan - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 295 March 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/King/king.html

Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China, The
http://www.chineseprehistory.org/index.htm

Geoarchaeology and Dating of Paleolithic Sites in the Transbaikal, Siberia
http://www.unr.edu/cla/anthro/sundance/transbaikal.asp

Göltepe / Kestel Project (Turkey)
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/GOL/Goltepe.html

Grottes des montagnes du sud de Java, Les. Mission Quaternaire et Préhistoire en Indonésie (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
java/index.html

Harappa, The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan
http://www.harappa.com

Hindou Kouch. Industries lithiques de faciès archaïques dans l'Hindou Kouch (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
hindou_kouch/index.html

Images of lost Civilization : the ancient rock art of Upper Tibet
http://www.asianart.com/articles/rockart/index.html

Index to Materials on Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax (Japan)
http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/Hoax/hoax.html

India and Southern Asia Chronology (part of the The Web Chronology Project, Chicago North Park University)
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/India/India.html

International Kouril Island Project (Russia)
http://www.anthro.washington.edu/Archy/IKIP/index.html

Interactive dig : Sagalassos (Turkey)
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/sagalassos/index.html

Irian Jaya : deux millénaires de production céramique (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
irian_jaya/index.html

Kalimanthrope, Le (in french, parts in english - Groupe de recherche pluridisciplinaire sur Kalimantan, Borneo)
http://www.kalimanthrope.com/

Kamal Archaeology Page (Malaysian Archaeology and numerous Indo-Pacific listings)
http://www.alang.ukm.my/kamal/

Keriya (Xinjiang). Oasis englouties du désert de Taklamakan (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
keriya/index.html

Korea Ministry of Culture and Tourism (follow "history" to prehistory, but check the other sections too !)
http://www.mct.go.kr/english/index.jsp

Late prehistoric and early historic archaeology in the Central Highland of Thailand: excavation at the site of Sab Champa (by Sawang Lertrit - published in Antiquity Vol 78 No 299 March 2004)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/lertrit/index.html

Learning sites : Nemrud Dagi, Turkey - Virtual Worlds Under Construction
http://www.learningsites.com/NemrudDagi/nemdagi-2.htm

Limits of pre-industrial, urban growth in Angkor (Cambodia)
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/research/angkor/angkor.html

L'obsidienne du Petit Caucase (Arménie) (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/
archeologie/caucase/index.html

Lost mummies of China
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/

Lost roman treasure : Zeugma - Turkey
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/zeugma/

Lost treasures of Tibet
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tibet/

Middle East and West Asia Chronology (part of the The Web Chronology Project, Chicago North Park University)
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/MiddleEast/MiddleEast.html

Mission archéologique française en Mongolie (french archaeological project in Mongolia)
http://archaemongolia.com/

Mysterious mummies of China
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/

New Archaeological Discoveries in Tibet
http://www.asianart.com/articles/bellezza/index.html

New dates for Iron Age Gordion (Turkey) (by Keith DeVries, Peter Ian Kuniholm, G. Kenneth Sams & Mary M. Voigt - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 296 June 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/devries/devries.html

Northern Tibet Exploration: Archaeological discoveries of the Changthang circuit expedition 1999 (a preliminary report)
http://www.asianart.com/articles/tibarcheo/index.html

Origins of Angkor Archaeological Project, The (sites in Thailand and in Cambodia)
http://www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropology/Angkor/index.html

Patani : l'émergence d'un sultanat malais en Thaïlande du sud
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
patani/index.html

Peter Brown's australian and asian palaeoanthropology
http://metz.une.edu.au/~pbrown3/palaeo.html

Peuplement ancien du Dehistan, Le. Mission archéologique française au Turkménistan (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
maftur/index.html

Pithécanthropes (Homo erectus) de Java, Les. Mission Quaternaire et Préhistorique en Indonésie (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
java_2/index.html

Prehistoric rock paintings of Bhimabetaka (India)
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/rockpain/betaka.htm

Prehistory in Thailand
http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~wutt/prehi.html

Prehistory of Sri Lanka : an ecological perspective
http://www.the-prehistory-of-sri-lanka.de/

Premier empire des Steppes. Mission archéologique française en Mongolie (in french)
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/culture_scientifique/archeologie/
mongolie/index.html

Punjab . Archeological Excavations (India)
http://www.pcschicago.org/Punjab/archeological.htm

Reading the Remains : a prehistoric grave at Khok Phanom Di in central Thailand
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/icemummies/remains.html

Rock Art of Lake Namtso, Tibet, The
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/tibet/index.html

Sannai Maruyama: A New View of Prehistoric Japan (Mark Hudson, Asia-Pacific Magazine, No.2 May 1996, pp.47-48)
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/APM/TXT/hudson-m-02-96.html

Secrets of lost empires : China bridge
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/china/

Settlements and Burials in the North Margins of Nomadic World (Russia)
http://www2.usu.ru/arch_laboratory/eng/burials.htm

Silkroad Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

Sino-Australian-American Yi-Luo River Collaborative Archaeological Survey (China)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/archaeology/research/survey/index.htm

Sites archéologiques Khmers (Cambodia)
http://www.site-archeologique-khmer.org/

Sous les eaux du golfe de Khambat (India - in french)
http://www.futura-sciences.com/comprendre/d/dossier226-1.php

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

Space Radar Images of Earth :
Angkor, Cambodia : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar/angkor.html
Great Wall of China : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar/gwall.html
China's Silk Road : http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/sircxsar/silkroad.html

Spice Islands Archaeology Project (Indonesia)
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/SIAP/home.html

Sultan's lost treasures - off the coast of Brunei
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sultan/

Tay Project (Türkiye Arkeolojik Yerlesmeleri = Archeological Settlements of Turkey; site in turkish and english)
http://tayproject.eies.itu.edu.tr

Thai Heritage page (Page about cultural information on Thailand and Siam. Has a link to a page about Thai prehistory)
http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~wutt/wutt.html

The Archaeology of Prehistoric China
http://www.nga.gov/education/chinatp_pt1.htm

The great flood legends - ancient misreadings of the fossil record? (by Richard K. Jeck - published in Antiquity Vol 78 No 300 June 2004)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/jeck/index.html

The size of the Chinese terracotta warriors - 3rd century B.C. (by John Komlos - published in Antiquity Vol 77 No 296 June 2003)
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/komlos/komlos.html

Time Map : Korea animation (the Korean peninsula cultural evolution animated)
http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/timemap/epublications/2002_animations/
2002_shilla_animation.html

University of Sydney Central Asian Programme (Afghanistan, Uzbekistan)
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/archaeology/
CentralAsia/homepage.htm

Urban growth in Angkor
http://www.angkor.usyd.edu.au/angkor.shtml

Ushki-5, Kamchatka, and the Peopling of the Americas
http://www.unr.edu/cla/anthro/sundance/ushki.asp

Visions of China (CNN report, exhibition of chinese archaeological artefacts)
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9908/china.excavations.gallery/index.html

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