A Tale of Two Giants: Wilhelm G. Solheim II (1924–2014) and William A. Longacre Jr. (1937–2015)

This essay is not so much an obituary or combined obituaries as a personal appreciation of two archaeologists, Wilhelm G. Solheim II and William A. Longacre Jr., both of whom profoundly affected their home universities, Philippines studies, and the lives of many scholars. For this tale of two giants, I draw on my own and others’ memories, writings of others cited herein, and an amazingly detailed vita in my possession covering Bill Solheim’s work from 1947 through 1986. This is not a detailed accounting of their many research projects and accomplishments, but instead highlights the latter decades of their careers as they increasingly focused their research on theoretical and topical issues concerning the Philippines. I will attempt to write this accolade in the styles of both men, with the casualness of Bill Solheim and the clarity of Bill Longacre

The Royal University of Fine Arts, East-West Center, and University of Hawai'i Program in the Archaeology and Anthropology of the Kingdom of Cambodia, 1994-1998

The East-West Center and the University of Hawai'i in 1994 joined the Royal University of Fine Arts, a division of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, Kingdom of Cambodia, in a program to train graduates of the Royal University's Faculty of Archaeology. Three sets of students have spent an academic year in Hawai'i; two students are now classified graduate students at the University of Hawai'i. Training and research at the ancient city of Angkor Borei, in the upper Mekong Delta, have extended over three field seasons. The Ministry and the University of Hawai'i archaeological team continue training and research at Angkor Borei and at Neolithic sites in Kampong Cham Province. KEYWORDS: Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Angkor Borei, archaeology, field training

Editorial

We can only hope that future volumes of Hawaiian Archaeology are produced in a more timely fashion and with less pain than Volume 2. Volume 1, our society's pre­ mier issue, appeared in 1984. Volume 2 was then initiated. An editorial committee accepted papers and began the editing process. After an initial bout of editing, the papers sat while the editor, Mr. Joseph Kennedy, diligently sought funding aimed at producing a high-quality journal. A generous grant did eventually come from the Lawrence Newbold Brown Foundation, and we gratefully apply these re­ sources to our publication. Years passed, however, and I suspect that society mem­ bers began to despair of ever seeing the promised issue. I decided to re-edit the entire issue and the staff of the Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, assisted in this thankless and tedious task. Time and support for this work was provided me by an unlikely source, the Max Planck Institute for Human ­ ogy in Andechs, Germany. Without an escape from Hawai'i to Bavaria, I doubt that the days of uninterrupted editing would have been found