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Christine
Hensley Sherman
Project Editor 
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| Hello, I joined the Ban Chiang Project in the
Spring of 1999. I developed our first website that year, and I'm happy
to say that I have now passed upkeep of the website off to our able work-study
student, Di Hu. I was the project editor on our first monograph, Ban Chiang,
A Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand, I: The Human Skeletal
Remains by Michael Pietrusewsky and Michele Toomay Douglas, 2002, and
I'm currently working with Elizabeth Hamilton, William Vernon, Vince Pigott,
and Joyce White on preparing the second and third volumes of the series.
Education B.S. Urban and Regional Planning, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, 1983Archaeological Interests I am interested in the transition of human cultures from hunters and gatherers to farmers. Much of my research has been conducted in west central Kentucky in the Green River Valley. I have participated in investigations of shell middens, dirt-rock middens, rockshelters, and cave sites with deposits that primarily date from 1st and 2nd millennium BC. My colleagues and I have collected information concerning plant use and cultivation during this critical time frame where there is slow, but obvious transition in how people put food on the table. Also during this period there is a change in the settlement pattern for the valley. In other words, the sites change from small base camps with limited artifacts and midden development to deep midden sites both with and without shellfish remains. How this shift in food production and settlement pattern is connected, or if it is connected, has occupied my archaeological musings for the past decade or so. I now look forward to putting my thoughts about food production and settlement patterns towards Southeast Asia and the Ban Chiang Cultural Area.Selected Publications Edited Books |
