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Rice in Southeast Asia (Bangkok 2018) Final Program
Conference overview. Abstracts.
" January 4 (Thursday)
8:00 Registration
8:30 COFFEE
9:00 Prof. Dorian Fuller - opening remarks: Rice in Southeast Asia, South/East Asia: Agricultural heritage, environmental legacy and archaeological questions.
9:15 Prof. Rasmi Shoocongdej (Silpakorn University, Bangkok). Rice in Southeast Asia: An anthropological archaeology's perspective
9:30 Dr. Cristina Castillo (UCL, Institute of Archaeology, London; Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe) Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: Thinking big in a details specialisation
10:10 Dr. Paramita Punwong (Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom; York Institute of Tropical Ecosystems, Environment Department, University of York, York). Application of botanical remains in the study of environmental changes and human interactions with coastal ecosystems
10:50 COFFEE
11:20 Mr. Akkaneewut Chabangborn (Department of Geology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok). Climate in mainland Southeast Asia between the last glacial maximum and the early Holocene
12:00 Dr. Nguyen Thuy Duong (Historical Geology Department, Faculty of Geology, VNU University of Science, Hanoi) and and Dr. Nguyen Thi Mai Huong (Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi, Vietnam). Palynological characteristics in several cores in the Red River Delta in relation to sea level change and cultivation in Holocene
12:40 LUNCH
14:00 Dr. Jane Carlos (Archaeological studies program, University of the Philippines). Rice in 13th and 14th Century Porac, Pampagna,Philippines
14:40 Nigel Chang (College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University, Queensland). Resilience, resource range & rice: evolving socio-economic systems of early agricultural communities in the Upper Mun River Valley, NE Thailand
15:20 Celine Kerfant (University Rovira i Virgili, Taragona, Spain). Ropes and baskets: new materials, manufacturing processes and uses
16:00 Prof. Rasmi Shoocongdej (Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok). Interaction between human and environments in Highland Pang Mapha, northwest Thailand
18:00 DINNER
January 5 (Friday)
9:00 COFFEE
9:30 Dr. Nathsuda Pumijumnong (Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, , Nakon Phatom, Thailand). Late Holocene interpretation of high-resolution oxygen isotopes derived from Tropical trees
10:10 Prof. Dorian Fuller (UCL, Institute of Archaeology, London). Advances in studying rice domestication and early agricultural systems: methodological advances and their application in India and China
10:50 Dr. Michelle S. Eusebio (Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Manila; Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Florida). The Prominence of Waxy Leafy Plants in the Culinary Practices of Prehistoric Mekong Delta
11:30 Dr. Joyce White (Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Philadelphia). The Ban Chiang ethnobotanical collection and its potential role for archaeobotanists
12:10 LUNCH
13:30 Dr. Nguyen Mai Huong (Institute of Archaeology, Hanoi). Paleoenvironmental study in Vietnam: approaching by pollen analysis from archaeological sites
14:10 Dr. Thanik Lertcharnrit (Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, Bangkok). Rice Agriculture before the Emergence of Early Complex Society in Central Thailand
14:50 Dr. Sasivimon Swangpol (Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Science Mahidol University, Bangkok). Wisdom around the Spines
15:30 COFFEE
16:00 Closing remarks / Discussion
January 6 (Saturday) Practicals
9:00 - 9:10 Opening remarks
9:10 - 9:25 Flotation protocol (Cristina Castillo)
9:25 - 9:40 Palynology protocol (Nguyen Thi Mai & Nguyen Thuy Duong)
9:40 - 9:55 Phytoliths protocol (Dorian Fuller)
9:55 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 10:45 Organic residues protocol (Michelle Eusebio)
10:45 - 11:00 Basic seed identification (Dorian Fuller)
11:00 - 11:15 Pottery impressions (Dorian Fuller)
11:15 - 12:00 Lunch
12:00 - 14:30 Flotation and Seed identification practicals (to be divided into 2 groups)
Free download: Rice: a users guide for archaeologists. A 20 page overview on rice taxonomy, macro-remains and phytoliths.
