Expedition Volume 24, Number 4 Summer 1982

Special Issue: Ban Chiang
Cover: Photo by Joyce C. White. Kitchen equipment in a Thai-Lao home in a village about 20 kilometers from Ban Chiang.

Features
The Road to Ban Chiang--A Dialogue of Events Leading to the University Museum's Participation in the Expedition
Elizabeth Lyons and Froelich Rainey

Ban Chiang in Retrospect--What the Expedition Means to Archaeologists and the Thai Public
Pisit Charoenwongsa

Prehistoric Man and His Environment--Evidence from the Ban Chiang Faunal Remains
Charles Higham and Amphan Kijngam

Natural History Investigations at Ban Chiang--The Study of Natural Resources and Their Use Today Aids Reconstruction of Early Village Farming in Prehistory
Joyce C. White

Processing the Ban Chiang Finds--With Particular Reference to Volunteer and Student Work at the University Museum
Joyce C. White, Lois Kratz, Cheryl Applebaum, and Deborah Wong

Potsherds into Printouts--The Ban Chiang Computer Project
John Hastings

The Ancient Inhabitants of Ban Chiang--The Evidence from the Human Skeletal and Dental Remains
Michael Pietrusewsky

Ban Chiang Pottery and Rice--A Discussion of the Inclusions in the Pottery Matrix
Douglas E. Yen

Petchabun Piedmont Survey--An Initial Archaeological Investigation of the Western Margins of the Khorat Plateau
James S. Penny, Jr.

Departments
Museum Staff

The Curator's Write--The Museum's Ban Chiang Project

Index to Volume 24