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Digging up the past - Sep 3, 2008 Bangkok Post,...and Surin Pookajorn for introducing the multi-disciplinary approach to archaeology in Thailand, including the excavation in Ban Chiang, Udon Thani. Exploring Udon Thani - Aug 1, 2008 Malaysia Star,The first stop was 50km away from Udon at the hamlet of Ban Chiang. When archaeological excavations kicked off here in 1974, it flourished from a sleepy A museum touch tour - Jul 25, 2008 Nation Multimedia,...life in the Northeast by touching shards and artifacts left over from the period, such as pots and ceramics from the archaeological site at Ban Chiang. History overturned - Apr 11, 2008 Malaysia Star,By TOM COCKREM Metallurgy and pottery have thrived in Ban Chiang, Thailand, as far back in time as any place in the world. The archaeologists, I read on _ FREER SACKLER GALLERIES - Feb 20, 2008 Bangkok Post,Initially dated as early as 4000 BC _ a date since revised amid much controversy to 2000 BC or even later _ the so-called Ban Chiang culture is the earliest Ban Chiang artifacts seized in US to be checked - Feb 1, 2008 Bangkok Post,US federal authorities last week raided four museums in southern California and found dozens of artifacts claimed to be from Ban Chiang. Ban Chiang is a Balancing art, ethics - Feb 17, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,The items are primarily earthenware vessels from the Ban Chiang culture in northeast Thailand. Museum officials had expected to mount “Ban Chiang, Thailand seeks more information on smuggled Ban Chiang artifact - Feb 1, 2008 Nation Multimedia,The ministry's move was made after a crackdown on four museums in Los Angeles last week found some ancient objects belonged to Ban Chiang civilization. Ban Chiang smugglers busted - Jan 27, 2008 Nation Multimedia,The department wants the artefacts returned to the King-dom if they were found to be from Ban Chiang, the oldest known civilisation in the King-dom, Tax Scheme Is Blamed for Damage to Artifacts - Feb 3, 2008 New York Times,The scholar, Joyce C. White, director of the Ban Chiang Project at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, said that the Authorities Raid California Museums - Jan 24, 2008 The Associated PressItems from the Ban Chiang area in Thailand also were being reviewed. All of the artifacts will remain at the museums, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman with the Raids New Blow to American Museums - Jan 25, 2008 The Associated PressFederal agents raided several Southern California museums on Thursday, mostly in search of artifacts allegedly taken from Thailand's Ban Chiang SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Museums raided in fraud probe Southeast Asian ... - Jan 25, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,Items from the Ban Chiang area in Thailand also are being reviewed. The warrants stem from an undercover investigation by a National Park Service special Shumla sends Texas to Thailand for rock art research - Feb 20, 2008 Del Rio Live!,In northeastern Thailand, at Issan, another UNESCO location, Ban Chiang Archeological Site, was visited, featuring bronze and pottery artifacts that put it Bowers Museum didn't need this publicity - Jan 26, 2008 Los Angeles Times,The curator allegedly bought and accepted donations of objects from the ancient Ban Chiang culture of Thailand while professing not to know whether UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM - Jan 24, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,The donations were items representative of the “Ban Chiang� culture, called one of the most important prehistoric settlements yet discovered in Southeast Man at center of in Bowers Museum probe says he did nothing wrong - Jan 25, 2008 Orange County Register,Labbé said he was interested in Thai antiquities from the Ban Chiang culture, which existed as long as 3000 years ago. The two agreed that if Olson returned Bowers director: Allegations are false - Jan 24, 2008 OCRegister,And secondly, Armand was one of the leading experts on Ban Chiang. He wrote two books on Ban Chiang and did an exhibit years before I came to the museum in Art Museum Scandal Grows: Tax Fraud, Artifact Looting Alleged - Jan 26, 2008 Hollywood Today Newsmagazine,He’s alleged to having knowingly imported illegally garnered art objects, which were taken from the Ban Chiang. Items were allegedly taken straight from the Bowers faces some tough questions - Jan 27, 2008 MSNBCOn Friday, Keller wrote a letter to the museum's Board of Governors explaining that he was not involved in the acquisition of Ban Chiang materials – objects BERKELEY / Cal's Art Museum contacted in probe - Jan 26, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,...years the Berkeley museum accepted smuggled artifacts from Thailand's Ban Chiang culture from a Los Angeles gallery owner who is a focus of the probe. 4 Southland Museums Raided in Looting Probe - Jan 24, 2008 ktla 5,Many come from the ancient civilization of the Ban Chiang, which occupied northeastern Thailand from 1000 BC to AD 200. "The original location where Ban Federal probe of stolen art goes national - Jan 29, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Warrants authorized federal agents to seize Cambodian daggers and a sword, a bronze mask, many objects from Thailand's Ban Chiang culture and all records Museum Workers Are Called Complicit - Jan 25, 2008 New York Times,The artifacts, a collection of materials from the Ban Chiang culture in Thailand, were soon accepted anyway. “That’s not the usual process, Feds Raid Balboa Park Museum - Jan 24, 2008 MSNBCAt the Mingei in San Diego, museum officials accepted five Ban Chiang ceramic vessels, along with two other pieces, in June 2006. Museum May House Illegally Taken Works - Jan 27, 2008 Daily Californian,The artifacts are from the Ban Chiang civilization of Southeast Asia. In 2006, the undercover agent donated ceramic vessels from Thailand to the Berkeley Four California Museums Are Raided - Jan 24, 2008 New York Times,One such discussion involved a vessel from the Ban Chiang culture in Thailand that the museum was interested in acquiring, according to the affidavit. Federal agents raid Bowers Museum for smuggled antiquities - Jan 25, 2008 OCRegister,The items under investigation include bronze and ceramics from Bowers' Ban Chiang collection. Antiquities from the Ban Chiang culture were excavated in US Agents Lead Chicago Raids in Art Smuggling Case (Update2) - Jan 29, 2008 Bloomberg...of ``Individual A,'' a major collector of Ban Chiang, Khmer and Chinese archaeological objects, and ``Individual B,'' the collector's primary supplier, Mingei points to late curator in smuggling case - Jan 26, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,Olson allegedly had been selling items taken from Thailand's Ban Chiang historical site, which dates back to 1000 BC Thai law prohibits the removal of Murky Provenance - Jan 25, 2008 NewsweekNative American material and valuable Asian art including statues of Buddha, bronze weapons and 2000-year-old ceramics from Thailand's Ban Chiang site. Berkeley museum accepted items from couple in stolen-antiquities case - Jan 25, 2008 San Jose Mercury News,The couple donated several ancient Ban Chiang ceramic vessels from Thailand to the Berkeley museum in 2006, according to the federal search warrant served Police raid US museums for smuggled antiquities - Jan 25, 2008 Guardian Unlimited,Olson, 79, allegedly boasted to the agent he had more items from the Ban Chiang area than Thailand itself, according to an affidavit. Four California museums raided in Asian looting probe - Jan 24, 2008 International Herald Tribune,The current raids involved artefacts alleged to have been stolen from the Ban Chiang ancient archaeological site in northeast Thailand which is a UNESCO Raid on Calif. Museums Could Lead to Indictments of Employees in ... - Jan 25, 2008 Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription)Authorities were most concerned with artifacts allegedly taken from Thailand’s Ban Chiang archaeological site, and suggested that they were smuggled into US authorities raid museums - Jan 25, 2008 PRESS TV,According to the federal search, the Markells donated several ancient Ban Chiang ceramic vessels from Thailand to the Berkeley museum in 2006. Federal agents raid Bowers Museum for smuggled antiquities - Jan 24, 2008 OCRegister,Experts in Southeast Asian antiquities said some of the items donated to the Bowers dated back over 100 years to the Ban Chiang culture of Thailand, Travelpass in six months - Nov 22, 2007 Bangkok Post,...of the night flight ban. CHIANG RAI: A hunt is under way for a young Thai man accused of raping an Israeli tourist early yesterday morning, police said. Across the globe, breaking new ground - Nov 15, 2007 Daily Pennsylvanian,Before zooming in on Laos, White focused her attention on neighboring Thailand, leading the acclaimed Ban Chiang project from 1978-81 and publishing a book Highlights from the Mark J West Collection of Antique and ... - Oct 11, 2007 Response Source (press release),Examples include pottery vessels with 'rope' decoration from the Ban Chiang period and pottery vases with shaped rims, ovoid bodies and three applied Design it yourself Jan 7, 2006 ...of the world''. ''Thailand has been producing jewellery since the Ban Chiang era, long before any other civilisation. This long ... Bangkok Post, Two sites considered for Unesco World Heritage list Jan 4, 2006 Heritage Sites list, including three cultural sites – Ayutthaya and associated towns, Sukhothai and associated towns and the Ban Chiang archaeological site. ... 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