num_pages: 208
description: Written as a travelogue Surface Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia tackles the most pressing issues of cultural-heritage management in an engaging and accessible way. In each chapter the author makes the past relevant to the present through his encounters with archaeological sites. While the book's anecdotes are associated primarily with Thailand and Indonesiafrom a decaying National Museum in Manila to the search for traces of the thousands of Communists who were killed after an attempted coup in Bali to the discovery of a bottle of perfume found among the personal effects of Indonesian ex-president Sukarnothey have broad international interest because of the issues they raise. These archaeological stories again and again remind us what history both remembers and conceals.
language: English
title: Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia
publisher: AltaMira Press