My work involves both field-based and lab-based investigations.  The Ifugao Archaeological Project, a collaborative research project between the National Museum of the Philippines, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Inc., Archaeological Studies Program-University of the Philippines, and the University of Guam, recently completed it's first field season in the Old Kiyyangan Village, Kiangan, Ifugao.  This research project is a continuation of my work that started in 2002 as part of a Master's thesis for the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

I have also initiated a project for the City of Tayabas in Quezon Province (with Noel Amano, UP-ASP). This work aims to document the rice terraces located in Barangay Dapdap and hopes to provide a comparative study between Philippine Cordillera and lowland terrace systems in the Philippines.  In addition, a larger project to document the development of Tayabas City as a major hub in pre-Hispanic and Hispanic-era Philippines is included in the investigations.

In the summer of 2016, we will initiate the Culture Contact Research Project in Camarines Sur, Philippines.  Through a collaborative research project between the National Museum, Archdiocese of Caceres, and UCLA, we will focus on the responses of Bicolanos to the initial contacts with the Spanish.  

Rice terraces in Brgy. Dapdap, Tayabas City, Quezon

The crew and partners of the 2012 Field Season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project