Multiple News Outlets Describe the Ban Chiang Seminar to commemorate 185 years of Thai-US diplomatic relations October 2, 2018 984 0 On the occasion of the 185th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Thailand and the United States, the Department of American and South Pacific Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, the Ban Chiang National Museum of the Department of Fine Arts, and the Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, in collaboration with the Institute
2nd ISEAA Early Career Award Winner Announced! September 26, 2018 777 0 Photo: Joyce White and Ben Marwick present award certificate to Hermine Xhauflair Congratulations to Hermine Xhauflair, recipient of the 2nd ISEAA Early Career Award in Southeast Asian Archaeology! Hermine received a certificate of recognition at the 21st Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association meetings at Hue, Vietnam. Her award is based on her submission as
Joyce White gives talk in Bangkok September 18, 2018 753 0 Today Joyce White gave a talk at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand about the Ban Chiang ethnobotanical collection from 1978-1981.
UPCOMING TALK on Thursday, August 30 – Stalking Rice Genomes August 27, 2018 897 0 Stalking Rice Genomes Adventures in Tracing the Many Histories of Rice Domestication and Cultivation since 10,000 BCE Thursday, August 30, 2018 Dorian Fuller, Professor of Archaeobotany Institute of Archaeology, University College London Cristina Castillo, NERC Research Associate Institute of Archaeology, University College London Room 345, Penn Museum 5:00-6:00pm In depth study of the genetic and
Scientist Podcast Interview with Joyce White August 22, 2018 823 0 Listen to Joyce White’s August 20, 2018 interview for Scientist Podcast Joyce White was recently interviewed by Toshiki Nakashige for Scientist Podcast. White and Nakashige engage in a fascinating discussion about the early days of the Ban Chiang Project and Middle Mekong Archaeological Project, the potential for archaeology to address popular misconceptions in Southeast Asian prehistory and beyond, and outlines some of the
Joyce White presents paper at 83rd Annual Meeting for the Society of American Archaeology April 16, 2018 702 0 At the SAA Annual Meeting in Washington DC from April 11-15, 2018, Joyce White presented the paper “Climate change and the middle Holocene ‘missing millennia’ in the Southeast Asian Archaeological Record” with co-authors Michael Griffiths, Kathleen Johnson, Cyler Conrad, and Hongying Yang. The paper discussed preliminary results from the palaeoclimate research conducted by the Middle
Monograph Files Handover Day! December 6, 2017 774 0 October 17th, 2017 was a big day for the Ban Chiang Gang. Monograph files handover day! Elizabeth Hamilton and Joyce White handed in all the files revised after peer review for 4 (yes 4) sub-volumes from the original gargantuan manuscript we handed in last year. Also at the handover was Page Selinsky and Janice Barrabee
It’s more than just plants and paper December 6, 2017 818 0 Article by Antonia Love When I received a Penn Museum summer internship, I was ecstatic to be back at the Museum. I had interned in the Archives last summer and had just been accepted to come back, this time to work on a project with the Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological
ISEAA 2017 Appeal November 29, 2017 787 0 Wow, this past year has been amazing! In October, our team handed over the final files to Museum Publications for the Ban Chiang metals monograph, which will be published in 4 separate sub-volumes. Joyce also made a lengthy trip to Asia that included work for an Asian Development Bank Project that is building infrastructure to enhance access
2017 ISEAA Newsletter available! November 15, 2017 836 0 Read the 2017 issue of the ISEAA Newsletter.
Christmas in August at Penn Museum! August 9, 2017 773 0 During his visit to the Penn Museum last month, Cyler Conrad opened some boxes that had been sent to Joyce White by Miriam Stark some years ago with materials from Chet Gorman’s work in northwest Thailand. Bags from “Site 19” aka Spirit Cave were found! Could be the long missing collection, or parts of it!…
Repatriation News! March 22, 2017 825 0 The Department of Anthropology of the University of Hawai´i at Mānoa reports that the collection of Ban Chiang human remains excavated by the Penn Museum and the Fine Arts Department of Thailand have been shipped back to their home in Thailand. Congratulate Mark Oxley, Mike Pietrusewsky, and Miriam Stark for their efforts in making this
