Multiple News Outlets Describe the Ban Chiang Seminar to commemorate 185 years of Thai-US diplomatic relations October 2, 2018 36 0 On the occasion of the 185th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Thailand and the United States, the Department of American and South Pacific Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, the Ban Chiang National Museum of the Department of Fine Arts, and the Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, in collaboration with the Institute
UPCOMING TALK on Thursday, August 30 – Stalking Rice Genomes August 27, 2018 31 0 Stalking Rice Genomes Adventures in Tracing the Many Histories of Rice Domestication and Cultivation since 10,000 BCE Thursday, August 30, 2018 Dorian Fuller, Professor of Archaeobotany Institute of Archaeology, University College London Cristina Castillo, NERC Research Associate Institute of Archaeology, University College London Room 345, Penn Museum 5:00-6:00pm In depth study of the genetic and
Scientist Podcast Interview with Joyce White August 22, 2018 26 0 Listen to Joyce White’s August 20, 2018 interview for Scientist Podcast Joyce White was recently interviewed by Toshiki Nakashige for Scientist Podcast. White and Nakashige engage in a fascinating discussion about the early days of the Ban Chiang Project and Middle Mekong Archaeological Project, the potential for archaeology to address popular misconceptions in Southeast Asian prehistory and beyond, and outlines some of the
Monograph Files Handover Day! December 6, 2017 20 0 October 17th, 2017 was a big day for the Ban Chiang Gang. Monograph files handover day! Elizabeth Hamilton and Joyce White handed in all the files revised after peer review for 4 (yes 4) sub-volumes from the original gargantuan manuscript we handed in last year. Also at the handover was Page Selinsky and Janice Barrabee
It’s more than just plants and paper December 6, 2017 24 0 Article by Antonia Love When I received a Penn Museum summer internship, I was ecstatic to be back at the Museum. I had interned in the Archives last summer and had just been accepted to come back, this time to work on a project with the Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological
ISEAA 2017 Appeal November 29, 2017 26 0 Wow, this past year has been amazing! In October, our team handed over the final files to Museum Publications for the Ban Chiang metals monograph, which will be published in 4 separate sub-volumes. Joyce also made a lengthy trip to Asia that included work for an Asian Development Bank Project that is building infrastructure to enhance access
Christmas in August at Penn Museum! August 9, 2017 21 0 During his visit to the Penn Museum last month, Cyler Conrad opened some boxes that had been sent to Joyce White by Miriam Stark some years ago with materials from Chet Gorman’s work in northwest Thailand. Bags from “Site 19” aka Spirit Cave were found! Could be the long missing collection, or parts of it!…
Repatriation News! March 22, 2017 21 0 The Department of Anthropology of the University of Hawai´i at Mānoa reports that the collection of Ban Chiang human remains excavated by the Penn Museum and the Fine Arts Department of Thailand have been shipped back to their home in Thailand. Congratulate Mark Oxley, Mike Pietrusewsky, and Miriam Stark for their efforts in making this
Report from the Field: Survey in northern Laos March 22, 2017 23 0 While Philadelphia and much of the rest of the world was celebrating the holiday season, the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) was conducting site survey in northern Laos. We collected data in the Ou River Basin as part of our study region in Luang Prabang Province. See more photos with captions of the 2016 MMAP
ISEAA research at the Society for American Archaeology Vancouver meeting March 22, 2017 22 0 Two papers present ISEAA research at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Vancouver March 30-April 2. Joyce White (with co-author Elizabeth Hamilton) is presenting “Applying a Life History Framework to Analyzing the Ban Chiang Metals Assemblage” 8 AM Saturday April 1. Fabian Toro (with co-authors Chantel White and Joyce White) is presenting “Developing a Legacy Collection of Traditional Rice
A post by visiting scholar, Cyler Conrad March 22, 2017 22 0 Hi all, This week I’m visiting Joyce White and the Ban Chiang archives at ISEAA and the Penn Museum. I am researching for my PhD Chester Gorman’s excavations in the 1960s and 1970s at Spirit Cave, Steep Cliff Cave, and Banyan Valley Cave in northwest Thailand! At the moment I am working with the digitized
