Chapter 1 of Volume 2A Now Available October 1, 2019 600 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 411 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 937 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 381 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 319 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 307 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 293 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
Joyce White Featured in Penn’s 34th Street Magazine February 5, 2019 173 0 34th Street magazine interviewed Joyce White for their February 2019 cover story. The article featured her role as an expert witness for Operation Antiquity, one of the biggest recent smuggling cases in the United States. Read it here.
Golden Buddha uncovered! December 12, 2018 319 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
Drone practice at Vat Sikhottabong December 8, 2018 301 0 ISEAA and Lao colleagues – Joyce White, Jared Koller, Peter Cobb, Bounheuang Bouasisengpaseuth, and Arnon Pong (Souksamone) – did drone practice and trial flights at Vat Sikhottabong. The next phase is drone mapping for the historic town in the forest around Vat Sikhottabong. The survey team used drones and Emlid Reach RS+ GNSS (Global Navigation
Survey in Thakhek November 30, 2018 313 0 ISEAA undertook a survey near the old city of Thakhek, Laos for an Asian Development Bank-funded project. In this phase, Joyce White collected local knowledge of ancient features. She used a smartphone with an app configured to link photographs to GPS coordinates. See the Facebook page for more:
Drones arrive at ISEAA office for Thakhek survey October 23, 2018 272 0 Christmas came today in the Ban Chiang Lab at the Penn Museum! Joyce White and Elizabeth Hamilton opened the box that arrived with 2 drones they will use with Peter Cobb, Jared Koller and Lao colleagues in a survey at Thakhek, Laos, in December.
