Ever since primary school, we were told that Sir Stamford Raffles was the founder of modern Singapore in 1819. Even though 1819 seems like a long way back, I've never thought of Singapore as an old country. And being so young, I've never thought about archaeology in Singapore. Looking around, what I see is an urban jungle. How can there be anything "old" to find?
I'm currently taking a course on Coursera -- Archaeology's Dirty Little Secrets. This was meant to be a fun course, meaning that I'll view the video lectures IF I have the time and most probably not touch the assignments. Purely for interests sake. But after viewing the first lecture, I was hooked!
So this led me to reading up a little about archaeology in Singapore and I was surprised that an array of artifacts were found in a test site on the Padang: indigenously made earthenware, imported Chinese trade ceramics, Tang, Song and even Jin Dynasty coinages, to metal slag and glass beads and bangles! Check out the Southeast Asian Archaeology website for more information.
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