A Presence of the Past: The Legal Protection of Singapore’s Archaeological Heritage

• المؤلف الرئيسي: LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• الموضوعات: Archaeology; national monuments; planning law; Singapore; Asian Studies; Property Law and Real Estate
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1193; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3145/viewcontent/SOLLeeJack2013IJCPPresenceofthePast_prepub.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

Singapore is not well known for its archaeological heritage. In fact, chance finds in the early 20th century and systematic archaeological excavations since the 1980s conducted at sites around the Singapore River have unearthed artefacts shedding light on the island’s early history. In addition, the...