Videos/Slideshows

VIDEOS
Watch an interview
with Dr. Joyce White by tribaleglobale.

“A taste of Luang Prabang”
Volunteer Bill Henderson’s YouTube video from MMAP’s 2005 Field Season.

“Tham Vang Ta Leow, Laos excavation 2008″
Penn undergrad Yanik Ruiz-Ramón’s YouTube video from MMAP’s 2008 Field Season.

SLIDESHOWS
Opening A Window to Thailand’s Past: Chansen, Thailand

Discovering a Peaceful Bronze Age: Ban Chiang Project

Studying the Present to Understand the Past-Ethnoarchaeology at Ban Chiang

Exploring Prehistoric Metal Making-Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project

Investigating Environmental Change- Thailand Palaeoenvironment Project

Training Southeast Asian Archaeologists- UPENN Anthropology Department

The Future: Laos- Middle Mekong Archaeological Project

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.
If These Pots Could Talk…
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