Southeast Asian Archaeology

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Madeleine Colani Street

Madeleine Colani Street

One of Southeast Asia's pioneering archaeologists gets a street named after her in northern Vietnam

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Noel Hidalgo Tan
Apr 07, 2023
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The city of Hòa Bình is best known in Southeast Asian Archaeology for the Hoabinhian culture, a lithic techno-complex of prehistoric sites first identified by Madeleine Colani (1866-1943) of the EFEO. Last week, I happened to be in Hòa Bình for some fieldwork and I could not pass the chance to visit Madeleine Colani Street, newly-named in her honour.

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