Chapter 4 of Volume 2A Now Available October 13, 2019 1070 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 1125 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 1094 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 1287 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 910 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
Joyce White Featured in Penn’s 34th Street Magazine April 24, 2019 379 0 34th Street, the University of Pennsylvania’s student-run magazine, featured Joyce White on the cover of their February 6, 2019 print edition. The story covered her role as an expert witness in Operation Antiquity, a high-profile smuggling investigation led by the U.S. Read the article here.
2020 ISEAA Early Career Award April 16, 2019 1711 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 895 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 822 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 829 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 754 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 664 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.
