Joyce White
American archaeologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1952 · age 74
Joyce C. White is an American archaeologist, an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and executive director of the new Institute for Southeast Asian Archaeology.
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Localities in Thailand and Laos where Joyce White has conducted field research and/or studied recovered remains.
Joyce White and Lung Li look over gathered plant specimens in 1981.
In 2010, MMAP undertook a test excavation at the Tham An Mah rockshelter in northern Laos. During the field season, evidence for Iron Age burials dating to about 2000 years ago, and Stone Age occupation dating back to about 13,000 years ago, was found in the rockshelter.
Joyce White was named a Friend of Thai Science in 2021About this person
Her research primarily concerns decades-long multidisciplinary archaeological investigations in Thailand and Laos covering the prehistoric human occupation of the middle reaches of the Mekong River Basin. She is considered the world's leading expert on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ban Chiang, Thailand, and directs an archaeological fieldwork program in the Luang Prabang Province of Laos. She has become a strong advocate of cultural heritage preservation and has served as an expert witness in an antiquities trafficking case for the U.S. Department of Justice.
