Seedy Work: Methods of Archaeobotany November 5, 2024 76 0 Dr. Cristina Castillo (standing, far right) with her team who worked on floating the Archaeobotany samples When most people think of archaeology, they think about buried remains of buildings, or perhaps discovering skeletons or mummies. However, archaeology also has a nature-loving side, which would include archaeobotany. Archaeobotany is the study of excavated plants and how
2024 Newsletter November 1, 2024 138 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 178 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 259 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 275 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 283 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 684 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 609 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
Reviews by Robert Ehrenreich and Brett Hoffman June 8, 2022 568 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
New reviews of Metal Monograph by Bryan Pfaffenberger and Gonca Dardeniz June 7, 2022 564 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
2D, the fourth and final volume of the Metals Monograph, has finally been published March 23, 2022 564 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
Third ISEAA Early Career Award March 23, 2022 763 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
