Department of Heritage, Ministry of Information and Culture, Lao PDR
National Museum, Vientiane Department of Heritage, Ministry of Information and Culture, Lao PDR
Bounheuang is Deputy Director of the National Museum in Vientiane and Co-director of the Middle Mekong Archaeological Project (MMAP) in Laos. His research interests are Lao prehistory and the protection and conservation of Lao cultural heritage. Mr. Bouasisengpaseuth first worked with Joyce White on the 2001 rapid assessment survey in Luang Prabang Province that provided evidence for over 10,000 years of rich archaeological heritage in Laos and direction for MMAP work. MMAP seasons: 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009a/b/c, 2010
Update: The Henry Luce Foundation, as part of its commitment to international collaboration in Asian archaeology and the training of new scholars, supported two visiting researchers for the The Ban Chiang Project. In 2010, Bounheuang Bouasisengpaseuth from the National Museum of Laos and Sureeratana Bubpha of Thammasat University, Bangkok, studyed Ban Chiang ceramics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia under the supervision of Dr. Joyce White, Dr. Marie-Claude Boileau, and Professor Tom Tartaron.They focused specifically on the more than 500 intact or reconstructed vessels excavated by the University of Pennsylvania and Thai Fine Arts Department at Ban Chiang and three related sites during the 1970s. Their study program finished in May 2011.
Read Bounheuang’s Blogs on the Penn Museum’s website.
