It’s more than just plants and paper December 6, 2017 799 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 769 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 815 0 Read the 2017 issue of the ISEAA Newsletter.
Christmas in August at Penn Museum! August 9, 2017 755 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 804 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
Report from the Field: Survey in northern Laos March 22, 2017 787 0 While Philadelphia and much of the rest of the world was celebrating the holiday season, the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) was conducting site survey in northern Laos. We collected data in the Ou River Basin as part of our study region in Luang Prabang Province. See more photos with captions of the 2016 MMAP
ISEAA research at the Society for American Archaeology Vancouver meeting March 22, 2017 862 0 Two papers present ISEAA research at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting in Vancouver March 30-April 2. Joyce White (with co-author Elizabeth Hamilton) is presenting “Applying a Life History Framework to Analyzing the Ban Chiang Metals Assemblage” 8 AM Saturday April 1. Fabian Toro (with co-authors Chantel White and Joyce White) is presenting “Developing a Legacy Collection of Traditional Rice
A post by visiting scholar, Cyler Conrad March 22, 2017 776 0 Hi all, This week I’m visiting Joyce White and the Ban Chiang archives at ISEAA and the Penn Museum. I am researching for my PhD Chester Gorman’s excavations in the 1960s and 1970s at Spirit Cave, Steep Cliff Cave, and Banyan Valley Cave in northwest Thailand! At the moment I am working with the digitized
ISEAA 2016 Appeal November 22, 2016 811 0 The Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology (ISEAA) has had an amazing third year! Going on now is the ISEAA annual appeal to support our activities, including (1) the publication of the Ban Chiang metals monograph (now in peer review), (2) bibliographic enhancements, (3) developing our image database, and more. Please make your secure tax-deductible contribution online
Award for Expert Witness Work November 2, 2016 767 0 Dr. Joyce White, Consulting Scholar and archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Executive Director of ISEAA, was honored for her work as an Expert Witness in the US Justice Department’s Operation Antiquity. The award was bestowed at the Fifteenth Annual Law Enforcement Award ceremony of the United States Attorney’s Office Central District of
2016 ISEAA Early Career Award September 13, 2016 826 0 Announcement: The Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology announces the second round of the biannual award of $1000 for early career Southeast Asian archaeologists. ISEAA Early Career Award Committee Charge: The committee solicits nominations and selects recipients for the Early Career Award in Southeast Asian Archaeology. The committee selects a single peer-reviewed article or chapter published within
