2024 MMAP Accomplishments & Next Steps January 21, 2025 37 0 In Luang Prabang, the team began using the new workspace and loved the roomy 8-person workstations, collection storeroom, and shaded outdoor space. All of the 2023 members remained on board for 2024, leading to a happy reunion and deeper skill developments in archaeological illustration and ceramic variability, all leading to a very productive season. Issarawan
Happy Holidays From MMAP! January 21, 2025 34 0 Merry Christmas and Happy 2025 from our team in Luang Prabang working on MMAP and other exciting projects!
The Sixth ISEAA Early Career Award January 9, 2025 66 0 The Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology announces the sixth round of the biennial award of $1000 for early career Southeast Asianist archaeologists. Look here for information about the award and how to apply.
Interview with Nick Scavullo, Film Archive Digitization Volunteer December 11, 2024 57 0 by Ella Jewell Ella: Can you tell us a little about yourself? I’m an anthropology major at Temple University; I’m a senior and am planning to work for a year after graduating this summer, then want to go to grad school for forensic anthropology. This dream came to be because of the show Bones. I
From the Lab to the Academy November 6, 2024 240 0 Transfer of the Ban Chiang Ethnobotanical Collection to the Academy of Natural Sciences: Lea Belland (left) with the first transfer batch of Ban Chiang Project’s ethnobotanical specimens to the Philadelphia Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Chelsea Smith (right) is the collection manager of the Herbarium. Year of Botany at the Penn Museum, by
2024 Newsletter November 1, 2024 100 0 The 2024 ISEAA Newsletter is here, with articles on the Ban Chiang Project’s Year of Botany, including visits from Thai experts in botany and ethnography, Thai students, and an archaeobotanist based in London. Our progress came in three areas: Ethnobotany, Archaeobotany, and the Ethnographic Collection. The ethnobotanical project identified and mounted more than 1000 plant
Winners of the 5th ISEAA Early Career Award July 9, 2024 148 0 ISEAA is pleased to announce the winners, in this round 2 winners, of the Fifth Round of the ISEAA Early Career Award. Tied for first place are Elle Grono and Yinika Perston in a field of eight applicants! Elle Grono was recognized for her publication “Microstratigraphy reveals cycles of occupation and abandonment at the mid
Merry Christmas, MMAP 2023! February 13, 2024 226 0 The 2023 MMAP team in Luang Prabang wishes all a wonderful Christmas, holiday season, and New Year!!
Dr. Joyce White delivers two special lectures at Mahidol University, Thailand February 13, 2024 245 0 On October 31, 2023, Dr. Joyce White delivered a lecture on “Ethnobotany in Archaeology” to an audience of plant scientists and students at Mahidol University, Bangkok. If you click on the link here, you can access a video of the lecture. The same morning, she delivered a live video lecture on the topic “Thai Archaeology
A Life Recalled by a Fish Trap February 6, 2024 244 0 This elegant handmade fish trap is featured in the Museum’s Spotlight Gallery, a room near the entrance dedicated to a single object. (See this link for a 360° view.). It was made in the village of Ban Pu Lu in northeastern Thailand. It was purchased for the Museum by Joyce White around 1980, when the
Announcing the fifth ISEAA Early Career Award January 11, 2023 641 0 The Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology announces the fifth round of the biennial award of $1000 for early career Southeast Asianist archaeologists. Look here for information about the award and how to apply.
Fourth ISEAA Early Career Award September 14, 2022 564 0 Sarah Klassen has been awarded the fourth ISEAA Early Career Award for her submission “Provisioning an Early City: Spatial Equilibrium in the Agricultural Economy at Angkor, Cambodia” published in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09535-5 . Klassen was lead author of the multi-author article. The award committee judged that Klassen’s creative application of
