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= Draft:Miriam T. Stark = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miriam T. Stark is an American archaeologist whose field experience and emphasis of studies have included locations in North America, the Near East and Southeast Asia. She is currently a professor of Southeast Asian Archaeology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, a position she has held since August 1995. Having first received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, she went on to complete her M.A and PhD from the University of Arizona. Stark has co-directed the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP), located in southern Cambodia for the past 12 years. Her research focus not only includes the various aspects of political economy, but also on the process of state formation.

From 2000 until 2006, Miriam T. Stark edited the Asian Perspectives and from 2007 until present, she has directed the Luce Asian Archaeology Program, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology. Prior to her current research in Cambodian archaeology, Stark conducted ethnoarchaeological research in the Philippines. Miriam Stark has also conducted fieldwork in various locations such as Israel, New Mexico, Turkey and Thailand.

Stark is a proponent of citizen science, or public support, for fieldwork and research conducted in various locales. She has been quoted as saying, "citizens become better stewards for our shared archaeological past by experiencing it directly. Archaeological fieldwork also requires many hands".

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 * 1Research
 * 1.1Cambodia
 * 1.2Philippines
 * 2Projects
 * 2.1Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP)
 * 2.2Luce Asian Archaeology Program
 * 3Service
 * 3.1Community Services
 * 3.2Teaching
 * 4Select Publications
 * 4.1Articles
 * 4.2Reviews
 * 5References

Cambodia[edit]
Beginning with her work co-directing the Lower Mekong Archaeological Project, in 1996, Stark has since conducted nine archaeological field season around Angkor Borei, between the years of 1996 and 2009. Her work actively blended research with student training, with over 50 students from various countries from Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, participating in the work. This work was centered on understanding why the Mekong Delta is critical to understanding Southeast Asian state formation. The Mekong Delta region was first noted in ancient Chinese accounts and may have been associated with the Funan kingdom. It has been noted by Stark that her goal in research conducted in this region was to " heighten public commitment to preserving the Cambodian archaeological heritage". Additionally, her stated goal, particularly in the Angkor Borei region, was to better understand the impact of human beings on the landscape and environment and also to better understand previous political and economic organizations within the region.

Beginning in 2010, Miriam T. Stark joined the third phase of research investigating what was deemed the “demise of Angkor”. This research project was conducted by the University of Sydney and was labeled as the Greater Angkor Project. The study examined occupational patterning in the Greater Angkor region and focused on locations such as the Angkor Wat temple. In both 2010 and 2012, Stark worked as a GAP III co-investigator in the Greater Angkor region, testing habitations in an attempt to determine residence of Angkorian and Post-Angkorian societies. Locations studied and tested included but were not limited to Angkor Wat, Ta Prohm, Wat Athvea, and Wat Prei Einkosei. Prior to this research, very little work had been done in regards to the study of residence in these regions.

In 2013, more extensive work was done in the region with excavations conducted in and around Angkor Wat. This is of particular interest due to the utilization of LiDAR imaging to document the landscape.

Philippines[edit]
In 1987, Stark joined Bill Longacre's Kalinga Ethnoarchaeological Project, located in the Pasil municipality in the province of Kalinga, Philippines. There, she focused her study on the village of Dalupa, a moderately-sized village within Pasil with about 400 villagers. In Dalupa, the practice of pottery-making is a part-time specilization for its female inhabitants; in most other parts of Pasil. Her work examined the uses, distribution, and production of the pottery across Kalinga as well as the social boundaries, household economies, and technological shifts in the lives of Kalinga's residents.

Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP)[edit]
Due to the Cold War turmoil from 1970 to 1989 and the Cambodian Civil War from 1967-1975, Cambodia's archaeological suffered from desecration as the country's archaeological community nearly disappeared completely. Field research and historic preservation activities have precluded. As the violence concluded, restoration has slowly taken place with the help of UNESCO, the World Monument's Heritage Fund, and specialists from around the world. Demand for local expertise in Cambodian archaeology was high, and training local Cambodian archaeologists for generations to come has become increasingly urgent to Cambodia's archaeological sites.

One program to help increase local expertise is The Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP), which is an outgrowth from the University of Hawaii/East-West Center/Royal University of Fine Arts Cambodia Project originally created by Dr. Judy Ledgerwood in 1994. Miriam Stark co-directs this program and has refined it so that research is intertwined with training graduate students from the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. The program integrates disciplines such as archaeology, cultural anthropology, and art history. The goal of LOMAP, also known as the Cambodia project, is to provide academic/technical training for these graduates, which has also been the Royal University of Fine Arts' primary goal for over a decade.

Luce Asian Archaeology Program[edit]
Miriam Stark also directs the Luce Asian Archaeology Program (LAAP) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, which was launched in July 2009. The program has three specific objectives: to enhance the participating students' English skills so it can lead to their international collaboration in the archaeological field; to provide archaeological training within the class setting for participants that allows them to prepare for a variety of subjects for professional development; and to provide field experience through field training after completely the academic training at the university.

Community Services[edit]
Miriam Stark has also served on the Committee on the Status of Women in Archaeology for the American Anthropological Association from 1997-2000 as well as multiple roles for the Society of American Archaeology, including Committee on Meetings Development, Committee for Excellence in Archaeological Research and Analysis, and Board Member at Large. From 2013-2016, Stark served on the Cultural Heritage Policy Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America, which primarily based its focus on the area of Southeast Asia. The committee sought to stop global trafficking of illegal artifacts, particularly of pre-Angkorian and Angkorian art in Cambodia.

Teaching[edit]
Stark serves as undergraduate advisor in the department of anthropology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and has served in university service roles for the UHM College of Social Sciences Research Council, UHM/CSEAS Foreign Language Area Fellowships Committee, and the UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies Executive Board. Miriam Stark teaches introductory courses in the four field approach of anthropology, in addition to archaeological courses such as Archaeological Theory and Interpretation as well as Landscape Archaeology. Her emphasis on Southeast Asia is exampled in courses such as Southeast Asian Archaeology, Asian Archaeology, and East Asian Archaeology.

Miriam Stark also advises Graduate students as well as Ph.D candidates specializing in Southeast Asia, particularly in research involved in Cambodian and Philippine archaeology. As recently as February 2018, Stark has conducted several lectures regarding Angkorian Khmers in the Mekong Delta at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC) and various other institutions.

Articles[edit]
Ikehara-Quebral, Rona M.; Stark, Miriam T.; Belcher, William; Vuthy, Voeun; Krigbaum, John; Bentley, R. Alexander; Douglas, Michele Toomay; Pietrusewsky, Michael (2017-10-25). "Biocultural Practices during the Transition to History at the Vat Komnou Cemetery, Angkor Borei, Cambodia". Asian Perspectives. 56 (2): 191–236. doi:10.1353/asi.2017.0008. ISSN 1535-8283.

Cultural transmission and material culture : breaking down boundaries. Stark, Miriam T., Bowser, Brenda J., 1957-, Horne, Lee., Kramer, Carol, 1943-2002. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2008. ISBN 0816526753. OCLC 226389404.

Aung-Thwin, Michael A.; Stark, Miriam T. (2001-05-01). "Editorial: Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Myanma Pyay (Burma): An Introduction". Asian Perspectives. 40 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1353/asi.2001.0001. ISSN 1535-8283.

WEEK 1:
Signed up for Wikipedia

= Week 2:Article Evaluation = Article: Southeast Asia

- Information relevant and not distracting

- Feels fairly neutral

- Don't notice anything that is "overpresented"

- Clicked three citations - all three worked

- There are discussions occurring about why certain information has been removed from the article

Week 3: Added to Course Related Article
Added to: History of Southeast Asia

Week 4: Choosing Topic
- Adding Overview to Draft:Miriam T. Stark

- Also adding to the Cambodian Research Portion of the Article using the following links:

http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/People/Faculty/Stark/index.html

http://www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu/profile/index.cfm?email=miriams@hawaii.edu

(See Draft above)

Week 5: Drafting Article
(SEE ABOVE) DRAFT or Sunday, February 18 at 4:00 PM

Week 6: Peer Review
Attended Intertwine Peer Review hour long session: Sunday, February 18 at 4:00 PM

Week 7: Respond to Peer Review
There were no peer reviews conducted on our articles, so there is no response to post - worked on the draft of Stark above

Week 8: Move to Wikipedia
Draft from the Sandbox has been placed: Draft:Miriam T. Stark

Week 9: Continue on Article
Work has been refined and more sources have been added to the bottom of the page. Took the "Contributing Images and Media Files" course, but have had issues with adding an image of Miriam Stark. Has been removed twice.

Week 10: In class-presentation
Critiquing Articles: Didn't really critique articles, but was able to evaluate early on in the quarter, to see how pages are set up. The article I evaluated I chose at random

Summarize Contributions: I worked on the Overview of Miriam Stark and her information box, in addition to the portion that had to do with her Cambodian research. The article is completely new, so there is nothing to compare with it.

Peer Review: As noted, there were no peer reviews done, however I did take an hour long session on peer review through intertwine.

Feedback: There was no feedback received from Wikipedia Editors

Wikipedia Generally: I learned that adding to the site, while seemingly simple, is actually pretty complex and labor intensive. I haven't really contributed to a project like this in an academic setting. I think that Wikipedia his a great tool to improve public understanding, particularly when information is added, edited and reviewed by others in the same field. It's good to know that there are so many layers of reviews. This is important to make sure that accurate information is added to the site.