Field Supervisor
Phirum received a B.A. degree in archaeology from Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts in 2010. He was trained by various national and international organizations (France, Japan, and the U.S.) in archaeological field methods, ceramic classification and restoration, and field ethnography. He has worked as a field technician for monitoring, data recovery, burial recovery, shovel testing, survey, and laboratory work in Hawaiʻi’s cultural resources management settings on over 20 projects on O‘ahu, Hawai’i Island, and Micronesia (Guam) for IARII and IA, and he has over 10 years of experience in Cambodia.