Volume 24 / Number 4
1982
Special Edition: Ban Chiang
On The Cover: Kitchen equipment in a Thai-Lao home in a village about 20 kilometers from Ban Chiang. Photo by Joyce C. White.
Vol. 24 / No. 4
By: James S. Penny, Jr.
Petchabun Piedmont Survey: An Initial Archaeological Investigation of the Western Margins of the Khorat Plateau
The Petchabun Mountains stand in sharp contrast to the nearly level land which comprises most of the Khorat Plateau, northeast […]
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By: Charles Higham and Amphan Kijngam
Prehistoric Man and His Environment: Evidence from the Ban Chiang Faunal Remains
The excavations at Ban Chiang have opened a new chapter in our understanding of Southeast Asian prehistory, not only because […]
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By: Gregory L. Possehl
The Curators Write: The Museum's Ban Chiang Project
It is my privilege, after the untimely death just over a year ago of my friend and colleague Chet Gorman, […]
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By: Elizabeth Lyons and Froelich Rainey
The Road to Ban Chiang: A Dialogue of Events Leading to The University Museum's Participation in the Expedition
Foreword by Miss Lyons The Ban Chiang Project began in the late 1960s when Dr. Froelich Rainey was Director of […]
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By: Pisit Charoenwongsa
Ban Chiang in Retrospect: What the Expedition Means to Archaeologists and the Thai Public
Without the accidental discoveries in 1957 by a local villager and the subsequent archaeological work [beginning in 1967), Ban Chiang […]
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By: Joyce C. White
Natural History Investigations at Ban Chiang: The Study of Natural Resources and Their Use Today Aids Reconstruction of Early Village Farming in Prehistory
Although social scientists have long considered Southeast Asia a cultural backwater of China and India, biologists have noted since the […]
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By: Joyce C. White, Deborah Wong, Lois Kratz and Cheryl Applebaum
Processing the Ban Chiang Finds: With Particular Reference to Volunteer and Student Work at The University Museum
Following the completion of the 1975 excavation at Ban Chiang, all the material recovered from the two seasons of excavation […]
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By: John Hastings
Potsherds Into Printouts: The Ban Chiang Computer Project
As a new recruit to the Ban Chiang lab 1 was astonished at the huge quantity and variety of material […]
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By: Michael Pietrusewsky
The Ancient Inhabitants of Ban Chiang: The Evidence from the Human Skeletal and Dental Remains
Introduction Studies of human skeletal and dental remains excavated at Ban Chiang provide physical anthropologists with some important insights into […]
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By: Douglas E. Yen
Ban Chiang Pottery and Rice: A Discussion of the Inclusions in the Pottery Matrix
Rice (Oriza sativa) remains are hardly novel discoveries in Asian archaeology. Reported as grain husks or glumes, charred endosperms or […]
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