via The Past, 20 March 2023: Prof. Charles Higham’s roundup from last year’s IPPA Congress in Chiang Mai.
The 22nd Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 6 to 12 November last year. What a huge pleasure it was, after the arid COVID years, to meet friends and colleagues once more, and catch up with what has been going on. I even had the company of my son Tom after months of separation. The IPPA has been growing exponentially, and one of the highlights was the number of young archaeologists from Asian countries attending and giving presentations on their fieldwork. There are also great locations for the congress to take place. The last one was in Hué, Vietnam, the old royal capital, where our field trip took us to the palace compound of Vietnamese kings, now restored after becoming the epicentre of the Tet Offensive in 1968. Prior to that, we all met in Siem Reap, and were dropped off at the western gate of Angkor Thom, the city of Jayavarman VII, before roaming round the temple mausolea of Jayavarman and Baphuon, the latter belonging to his predecessor Suryavarman I.
Source: The 22nd Indo-Pacific Prehistory Congress | The Past
