LOOKING FORWARD BY STUDYING THE PAST IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY: THE NEXT 50 YEARS

A discussion on the collection of articles resulting from the 2013 conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison entitled, “Recent Advances in the Archaeology of East and Southeast Asia.” These papers are contextualized by considering the fifty years before the published JIPA papers appeared in 2015. I then review major themes in the conference papers, and discuss future directions.