University of Washington, USA
Ben is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department , where he works with graduate and undergraduate students on MMAP-related projects. His work with MMAP has concentrated so far on lithics, sediments and ceramics, especially at Tham Sua for which he was Excavation Director in July 2009. Ben’s specific interests include the hominin colonization of mainland Southeast Asia, forager technologies and ecology in Australia and mainland Southeast Asia, and transitions to agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia. Ben graduated from the Australian National University in 2008, with a PhD dissertation focused on stone artifact technology and isotope geochemistry at two sites in northwest Thailand spanning the Holocene and Pleistocene. Ben works with graduate and undergraduate students in his geoarchaeology lab at the University of Washington to analyze materials excavated by MMAP. MMAP seasons: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009b
Read his article in Antiquity.
Read his article in the SAA Archaeological Record.
