I'm a maritime archaeologist with a specific interest in Southeast Asian watercraft construction. My 2016 doctoral thesis examined the Butuan Boats, which were first excavated in Butuan City in the 1970s. I received my Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology from Flinders University of South Australia and Master of Arts in Archaeology from the University of the Philippines in 2009. I previously worked at the National Museum of the Philippines' Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Division as a researcher and curator from 2016 to 2021, after starting my career in the institution as a researcher in the Archaeology Division in 2004.

Selected Works
リガヤラクシーナ. (2022). From the Site to the Museum: Archaeologically Excavated Butuan Boat Remains Displayed in the National Museum of the Philippines. 国立民族学博物館研究報告, 47(1), 63-85.

Lacsina, L. (2016). Examining pre-colonial Southeast Asian boatbuilding: An archaeological study of the Butuan Boats and the use of edge-joined planking in local and regional construction techniques (Doctoral dissertation, Flinders University, School of Humanities and Creative Arts.).

Lacsina, L. (2015). The Butuan Boats of the Philippines: Southeast Asian edge-joined and lashed-lug watercraft. Journal of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, The, 39, 126-132.

Lacsina, L. (2014). Boats of the pre-colonial Philippines: Butuan Boats. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 1-7.

Szabo, K. A., Dizon, E. Z., Batoon, L., Cameron, J., Lacsina, L., Ochoa, J., ... & Vitales, T. (2007). The archaeology of Linaminan, central Palawan: A preliminary report on excavations. Hukay, 11, 1.