Ban Chiang is…
a village/mortuary site in northern northeast Thailand, in the province of Udon Thani.
Excavated by Chet Gorman of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Pisit Charoenwongsa of the Thai Fine Arts Department in 1974-1975, this extraordinary site was among the first to establish the existence not only of a hitherto unknown prehistoric culture, but also of a separate bronze age in Southeast Asia.
Dr. Joyce White discusses…
Penn's Luce Program for Asian Archaeology.
If These Pots Could Talk…
News Archive
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Year of Ceramics
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsThe Ban Chiang Project has designated the academic year 2010-2011 as the Year of Ceramics (YOC), with activities to advance the scholarly study of the famous ceramics of Ban Chiang.... -
Joyce White Honored at Opening of Ban Chiang National Museum
Posted on February 26, 2010 | 1 CommentThe University of Pennsylvania Museum and Dr. Joyce White, Associate Curator of the Museum’s Asian section, were honored by Her Royal Highness of Thailand, Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, on... -
The Ban Chiang Digital Image Project
Posted on August 27, 2009 | No CommentsMost long term archaeological projects have stacks of film photos stuck in a cabinet, set aside to be organized—some day. The thousands of images of pots, spear points, bracelets, bones, and excavation layers taken during decades of excavation and analysis in the Ban Chiang Project weren’t stuck in a cabinet. Instead, slides were organized in little boxes on shelves, and negatives and contact sheets were loaded into large and unwieldy loose leaf binders and stored in cardboard boxes. To find all the photographs taken of a certain pot required hours of hunting through dusty boxes, flipping through file folders, and deciphering twenty-year-old handwritten notes.
