{"id":4299,"date":"2007-03-07T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2017-01-26T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:37:52","slug":"lecture-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/03\/07\/lecture-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture at college to describe Vietnamese archaeological dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Le Thi Lien, a leading Vietnamese archaeologist, visits Bates College to discuss her involvement in a major archaeological site in Hanoi at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the art and visual culture department, the lecture is open to the public at no charge. For more information, please call 207-786-6135.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Located in Hanoi&#8217;s center, the Ba Dinh Site is the most important recent archaeological find in Vietnam. Dating back to the eighth century, the site encompasses the remains of a palace and citadel.<\/p>\n<p>Lien was among the archaeologists from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_Institute_of_Archaeology\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam Institute of Archeology<\/a> who, in December 2002, excavated an area of 48,000 square meters originally designated for the construction of a new National Assembly House and National Conference Hall. The excavation uncovered thousands of valuable artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>In her talk at Bates, Lien will discuss findings from the site, including the layout of the ancient palace and citadel, building materials, ceramics, everyday utensils and human remains.<\/p>\n<p>Lien was involved with the excavation project until April 2004. Trained in Vietnam, India and the United States, she is a well-known archaeologist in Vietnam. Currently she is a research fellow at Harvard University and is at work on a book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Thi Lien, a leading Vietnamese archaeologist, visits Bates College to discuss her involvement in a major archaeological site in Hanoi Thursday, March 29, in Room 104, Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,11010,39,166],"tags":[10769,2885,9053],"class_list":["post-4299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-humanities-history","tag-anthropology","tag-art-and-visual-culture","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92980,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4299\/revisions\/92980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}