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…
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Chet Gorman, Ban Chiang’s Wild Ginger Man
Posted on June 23, 2011 | 1 Commentby Ardeth Anderson Abrams A couple of months ago, I attended an evening talk at the Penn Museum where movies of the Ban Chiang Project’s first director, Chester Gorman, were...
