Friends and colleagues: The latest installment of the Video News   from TAC features Malaysia’s archaeological heritage. 

Always a   cultural melting pot, Malaysia has cultural and historical links to distant   places in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Archaeology here is young, but   already reveals a rich and deep cultural record both on land and in the sea   extending from Paleolithic sites in the Lenggong Valley to the Neolithic, Iron   Age, and more recent periods. The recently discovered Sungai Batu civilization   2000 years ago may have provided iron for India and Arabia while sea people in   Borneo obtained volcanic glass from New Britain, thousands of miles to the   east. 

See this story in the August 2012 edition of this monthly   half-hour show, available now on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The   Archaeology Channel ( http://www.archaeologychannel.org ) as well as on cable   TV in cities across the US. 

Launched in October 2010, the Video News   from TAC has presented 50 stories on highly varied topics in eight US states,   19 other countries, and two heavenly bodies (the Earth and the Moon). Video   News program details can be found at   http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNews.html . The growing list of cable   TV stations carrying the show is posted at   http://www.archaeologychannel.org/VideoNewscabletv.htm . 

This and   other programs are available on TAC for your use and enjoyment. We urge you to   support this public service by participating in our Membership (   http://www.archaeologychannel.org/member.html ) and Underwriting (   http://www.archaeologychannel.org/sponsor.shtml ) programs. Only with your   help can we continue and enhance our nonprofit public-education and   visitor-supported programming. We also welcome new content partners as we   reach out to the world community. 

Please forward this message to   others who may be interested. 

Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA   
President and Executive Director 
Archaeological Legacy Institute   
http://www.archaeologychannel.org

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