The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor: Volume V: the Excavation of Ban Non Wat: the Bronze Age

I have two current research projects. The first is as a member of the progamme From Paddy to Pura: the Origins of Angkor. This is directed by Dr D. O Reilly and Dr L. Shewan, and is funded by the Australian Research Council. My role is to direct the excavation of Non Ban Jak in Northeast Thailand, a large Iron Age settlement in the upper Mun Valley. My second project involves collaboration with Professor T. Higham of Oxford and Dr F. Petchey of Waikato University, and will be dating human bones and teeth from key prehistoric sites in Southeast Asia to provide a firm chronological framework for interpreting later Southeast Asian prehistory. My recently completed project, The Origins of Angkor , examined the prehistoric cultural sequence in Northeast Thailand in order to illuminate the nature of the prehistoric communities there and model state formation. This is based on excavations at the sites of Ban Lum Khao, Noen U-Loke, Non Muang Kao and Ban Non Wat. I am also a member of a research project in collaboration with the University of Durham to identify through isotopes in human teeth, the origins of individuals whose burials have been excavated at the above sites, and with the University of Sydney, the origins of Iron Age individuals in Cambodian Iron Age sites.