This is my last post for the year – I am taking a couple of weeks off after organising SPAFACON2021 and will be back again in the new year. If you found this website useful, and if you are in a financial position to do so, please consider buying me a virtual coffee to help keep this site going. SEAArch started out as a personal project and over the years it has grown into a repository of news about the archaeology of Southeast Asia. As of November 2021, I have indexed over 6,000 news stories; in addition, the website reaches an average of 6,000 readers every month, 7,600 followers on Instagram, 2,600 followers on Twitter and 8,800 followers on Facebook.
Besides maintaining an archive of news stories, I post updates on job listings, newly-published papers, and create detailed resource pages. I continue to work on this website in my personal capacity and in the coming year I hope to create more topic-specific resource pages, such as this timeline (which is a work in progress).
As the website has expanded over the years, so has the upkeep. Currently, it costs a little over US$1,000 a year to pay for web hosting and several security and optimisation plugins that keep everything running smoothly. These are mostly paid out of my own pocket and are offset by the advertising and affiliate links on the site. The best and most direct way of supporting the site is through Buy Me a Coffee. For the price of a coffee, you can make a one-time contribution or a subscribe to a monthly membership which goes towards the upkeep of the site. This year I’ve added a couple of tiered rewards for supporters on Buy Me a Coffee for the period of December 2021 to end-2022, which is my way of saying thanks to supporters in a more tangible manner.
On that note, I would like to thank the following supporters from this past year: Bérénice Bellina, Bill, Alison Carter, Wesley Clarke, Bernard Cohen, Erika Daum-Karanitsch, Jim Dodge, Jim Fitton, Charles Higham, John Miksic and five others who have asked to remain anonymous.
I am always very grateful for the support from the readers of the site – many of you are professional acquaintances and some of you have also become personal friends. I hope to continue this site as a useful resource for both archaeologists and the curious alike. All the best wishes for the season, and see you again in the new year!
