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Announcing the fifth ISEAA Early Career Award

January 11, 2023 156 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.

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Fourth ISEAA Early Career Award

September 14, 2022 186 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

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Reviews by Robert Ehrenreich and Brett Hoffman

June 8, 2022 186 0

Two more laudatory reviews of the Metal Monograph have been published by archaeometallurgist Robert Ehrenreich and South Asian specialist Brett Hoffman. Robert Ehrenreich’s review of Volumes A-C appears in the Journal of Anthropological Research (Summer 2022). He writes that the set is a “true magnum opus“, and follows that by writing, “It is an exquisite

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New reviews of Metal Monograph by Bryan Pfaffenberger and Gonca Dardeniz

June 7, 2022 188 0

We are happy to announce two new reviews of the Metals Monograph. We are especially pleased , because both reviewers are from outside the world of Southeast Asian studies, thus lending a broader, world-wide perspective. The first review is by Bryan Pfaffenberger, one of the world’s leading scholars of the Anthropology of Technology . He

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2D, the fourth and final volume of the Metals Monograph, has finally been published

March 23, 2022 202 0

This volume contains the catalogs of all the metal and crucible remains from Ban Chiang, Ban Phak Top, Ban Tong, and Don Klang. The catalogs present all the descriptive, contextual, and analytical data, along with drawings of many of the artifacts and photomicrographs of all the metal artifacts examined under the microscope. This is the

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Third ISEAA Early Career Award

March 23, 2022 365 0

Early Career Award ISEAA launched an award program, the first ever in Southeast Asian Archaeology, in 2015 for Early Career Southeast Asian archaeologists. In the third round of this biennial program, the ISEAA Early Career Award winner for 2020 was Veronica Walker Vadillo. Her paper “A historiography of Angkor’s river network: shifting the research paradigm

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2021 ISEAA Newsletter finally in print

March 6, 2022 372 0

The first ISEAA newsletter since 2019 has finally appeared, with articles covering the exciting events of the past two years: the completion of the metals monograph and two other major articles, the Friends of Thai Science Award, and the upcoming launch of our new Southeast Asian archaeology Bibliographic Database. Also included is the announcement of

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Reviews of the Metals Monograph in Thai

February 13, 2022 245 0

The eariliest Thai reviews of the metals monograph 2A-2C have appeared! The first is by Thanik Lertcharnrit of Silpakorn University, in the latest issue of the Journal of Anthropology, published by the Princess Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre. Here’s the link. The second is by Podjanok Kanjanajuntorn in the journal Muang Boran. Here’s the link to

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Three more reviews of the Metals Monograph

November 30, 2021 285 0

The most detailed review yet of the first three volumes has been published by Anke Hein, a specialist in South China archaeology at Oxford University, in the leading journal Current Anthropology 62(5): 657-667, October 2021. She describes the content of every chapter of the first three volumes. She concludes by writing “Many of the series’

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Penn today Q&A with Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton

November 16, 2021 269 0

Penn Today publishes articles featuring research updates and other accomplishments from faculty, staff, and students. On July 29, 2021 the news hub published a Q&A featuring a conversation with Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton about their research and recently-published article in Archaeological Research in Asia. The article, entitled “The metal age of Thailand and Ricardo’s

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Announcing three more reviews of the metals monograph

October 13, 2021 348 0

Reviews by David Warburton, David Welch, and Bryan Pfaffenberger David Warburton, a specialist in Near Eastern archaeology, has published a review in  Antiquity 93(371): 1399-1401, 2019 He writes that “This volume is exceptional as the theses advanced are critically examined, logically presented and evidence driven.” p. 1400. David J. Welch, , a specialist in Thai archaeology y,

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Cyler Conrad et al.’s new analysis of Chet Gorman’s excavation finds

October 13, 2021 314 0

An example of creative use of legacy collections is Conrad et al.’s Antiquity open access article “Re-evaluating Pleistocene–Holocene occupation of cave sites in north-west Thailand: new radiocarbon and luminescence dating” https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.44 . Site sequences of Spirit Cave, Steep Cliff Cave, and Banyan Valley Cave excavated by Chester Gorman in the 1960s and 1970s are re-evaluated

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