From 1994 through 2013, the Ban Chiang Project published The Ban Chiang UpDATE for the Friends of Ban Chiang, with articles and photos about Project research, profiles of the staff and volunteers, and announcements. Click on the gallery below to view PDFs for all issues.

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READ ISSUE #20

  • From the Director: New Beginnings
  • MMAP 2013
  • FOBC Donors since July 1st, 2011

READ ISSUE #19

  • From the Director: Year of Monographs
  • “If these pots could talk…”
  • Conference report: Emergence of Bronze Age Societies: A Global Perspective
  • Chet Gorman, Ban Chiang’s Wild Ginger Man

READ ISSUE #18

  • From the Director: Year of Ceramics
  • Quelles Belles Céramiques!
  • An Interview with Joom and Boun
  • There’s a New Ceramics Lab in Town!
  • Exciting Preliminary Dates in Speleothem Research

READ ISSUE #17

  • From the Director: Your FOBC Contributions at Work!
  • MMAP in Hanoi: MMAP team presents papers at the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) conference
  • MMAP 2010: Excavation and Research at Tham An Mah Cave
  • Bill Henderson, Volunteer of the Year

READ ISSUE #16

  • From the Director: Ban Chiang Project Wins $300,000 Luce Grant
  • The Ban Chiang Digital Project: Your Ban Chiang Dollars at Work!
  • Ban Chiang’s Archaeo-Database
  • MMAP 2009

READ ISSUE #15

  • From the Director
  • Joyce Receives a Phone Call from the Department of Homeland Security
  • Snake Soup
  • Writing History Five Centimeters at a Time

READ ISSUE #14

  • From the Director: Monographs and the Creation of Knowledge
  • Spotlight on Rita DeAngelo
  • TAC-II (Thai Archaeology Challenge II) donors list

READ ISSUE #13

  • From the Director/Artist
  • Fun with Metallurgy
  • MMAP 2005: An Expedition to Laos Through Museum Volunteers’ Eyes

READ ISSUE #12

  • From the Director: Another Busy and Productive Year at the Ban Chiang Lab
  • FOBC Celebrate the Publication of the First Monograph
  • John Hastings: Volunteer Extraordinare!
  • Island Adventure

READ ISSUE #11

  • From the Director/Artist: What has Joyce been up to?
  • The Odyssey: From Field, to Lab, to Publication
  • Archaeocomputing?
  • Coming Home…to Fieldwork
  • Ban Chiang’s Compudude
  • Please Pass the Rice

READ ISSUE #10

  • From the Director
  • Ban Chiang Not for Sale
  • More Pollen Stories
  • UpDATE Marks its 10th Issue

READ ISSUE #9

  • From the Director
  • Bronze Age Culture of Nyaung-gan, Myanmar
  • Pollen Stories

READ ISSUE #8

  • From the Director
  • The Princess of Thailand Visits the Ban Chiang Lab
  • My Melakan Experience

READ ISSUE #7

  • A Celebration of Thai’s Ancient Cultural Heritage
  • In the Rotunda: A Feast of Thai Culture
  • The Crucibles of Ban Chiang

READ ISSUE #6

  • From the Director: We’ve been challenged!
  • Skeletons Beneath a Village
  • Bones Tell of Life in Ancient Ban Chiang

READ ISSUE #5

  • From the Director/Artist
  • From “Near East” to “South East” or How I ended up Digging in Thailand
  • Modern Ban Chiang: Another Perspective

READ ISSUE #4

  • From the Director/Artist
  • Ban Chiang: Thirty Years Later
  • …and from our high school summer intern, Julianna…

READ ISSUE #3

  • From the Director
  • Joyce’s Thai House Blessing
  • Our Exhibition: One Year Later

READ ISSUE #2

  • From the Director: The Friends of Ban Chiang has much to celebrate
  • Illuminating the Past: Art and Artists of the Ban Chiang Project Exhibit Opens…and Closes
  • The Ban Chiang Gang: A Continuation

READ ISSUE #1

  • From the Director: FOBC One-Year Anniversary
  • Past Events: Water Lilies, Wine, and the Thailand Palaeoenvironment Project
  • Spotlight Volunteer: Bill Henderson
  • National Geographic Funds the Thailand Palaeoenvironment Project
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