Chapter 5 of Volume 2A Now Available October 15, 2019 86 0 Here is a copy of Chapter 5: Metals in Economic Context, by Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton.
Chapter 4 of Volume 2A Now Available October 13, 2019 46 0 Here is a copy of Chapter 4: The New Archaeometallurgy Paradigm, by Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton.
Chapter 3 of Volume 2A Now Available October 8, 2019 75 0 Here is a copy of Chapter 3: Debunking the Conventional Paradigm: Metals and Prehistoric Society, by Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton.
Chapter 2 of Volume 2A Now Available October 6, 2019 69 0 Here is a copy of Chapter 2: “Ban Chiang, Ban Tong, Ban Phak Top, and Don Klang: Summary of Excavations and Sequences” by Joyce White, published in the Ban Chiang archaeometallurgy monograph volume 2A.
Chapter 1 of Volume 2A Now Available October 1, 2019 121 0 Here is a copy of Chapter 1: Ban Chiang, Northeast Thailand, and the Archaeology of Prehistoric Metallurgy by Joyce White. This chapter is suitable for college courses in Southeast Asian archaeology.
ISEAA Begins Posting Chapters from Volume 2A of the Ban Chiang Metals Monograph Series September 27, 2019 96 0 ISEAA is pleased to be able to begin to share access to chapters in the Ban Chiang monograph suite on metallurgy. The University of Pennsylvania Press, which is publishing the Ban Chiang Metals Monograph series, has a 12 month embargo period for posting copies of work online. Essentially, authors must wait 12 months after their
2020 ISEAA Early Career Award April 16, 2019 379 0 Photo: Hermine Xhauflair receives ISEAA’s Early Career Award in 2018 Announcement: The Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology announces the third round of the biennial award of $1000 for early career Southeast Asian archaeologists. Committee Charge: The committee solicits nominations and selects recipients for the Early Career Award in Southeast Asian Archaeology. The committee selects a
Southeast Asia at the Society for American Archaeology’s 84th annual meeting April 9, 2019 119 0 The Society for American Archaeology is holding its 84th annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 10-14, 2019. On April 11, SAA will host a symposium called Paradigms Shift: New Interpretations in Mainland Southeast Asian Archaeology. The chairs are Vincent Pigott and Chin-hsin Liu and the discussant is Ben Marwick. Session abstract: Over the
Rice carbonization paper published! April 9, 2019 105 0 Photo: Joyce White and Lung Li look over plant specimens in Thailand in 1981. On February 26, 2019, Chantel White, Fabian Toro, and Joyce White have published online “Rice carbonization and the archaeobotanical record: experimental results from the Ban Chiang ethnobotanical collection, Thailand” in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. Through a set of carefully controlled carbonization
Our survey equipment April 3, 2019 101 0 In November and December 2018, ISEAA and Lao colleagues headed to the area of Thakhek, Laos to conduct a survey in an area that had never been recorded by archaeologists before. The team set to do two things: produce a digital map of the historic temple complex at Vat Sikhottabong on the Mekong river, and
Monograph 2B published! February 18, 2019 100 0 Volume 2B of the Ban Chiang metals monograph has been published! It is called Metals and Related Evidence from Ban Chiang, Ban Tong, Ban Phak Top, and Don Klang. This volume presents in detail how the metals and such remains as crucibles excavated from four sites in northeast Thailand have been studied to understand the
Golden Buddha uncovered! December 12, 2018 107 0 The technical team wanted to model a location within easy walking distance from Vat Sikhottabong so that visitors could get a better sense of the evidence of the old city. Hiring local residents to assist, the project cleared vegetation off of brick features in an area south of the main temple. One notable find was
