Updates

Congratulations to former ASIL PhD candidate Karolina Varkulevičiūtė, lab manager Dr. Christine Winter-Schuh and ASIL director Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz on their new paper: "Methodological Considerations for the Use of Acid-Based Pre-Treatment Protocols for Carbon and Oxygen Analysis of Tooth Enamel" published in Rapid Communications in Mass...

Congratulations to former ASIL employee Sophia Politt et al. on their new paper: "Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6" published in Journal of Quaternary Science. This paper is based in part on Sophia's MA research supervised by Dr. Michaela Ecker as part of her KHO...

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new instrument to our laboratory equipment. The Gas Chromatography-Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID) will be used to identify and measure organic compounds.

We had wonderful weather for the week-long experimental zooarchaeology course run by Dr. Linda Amos and Prof. Makarewicz focusing on how processing animal carcasses for meat, grease and fat leave specific taphonomic signatures on bone. Today we ran experiments testing the conditions under which bone burns and becomes calcined, and how varying...

Congratulations to ASIL PhD candidate Nathaniel James et al. on their new paper: "Differences in the isotopic composition of individual grains and aggregated seed samples affect interpretation of ancient plant cultivation practices" published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology.

Congratulations to lab manager Dr. Christine Winter-Schuh, former MA candidate and ASIL employee Rebekka Ekkelmann, and ASIL director Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz on their new paper: "Dentin collagen sample geometry impacts pattern of intra-tooth nitrogen and carbon isotope change in taurine teeth" published in Journal of Archaeological Science.

In early June, Dr. Cheryl Makarewicz traveled to the eastern Badia of Jordan to visit the 'Kites in Context' project run by Yorke Rowan and Dr. Austin "Chad" Hill.

Three members of our lab, Dr. Ma'ayan Lev, Dr. Linda Amos, and Prof Cheryl Makarewicz, presented their research at the XVIth international meeting of the ICAZ working group "Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas" (ASWA) in Munich.

Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz, Prof. Alan Outram, and student assistants Alexander Gorelik and Grace Iwachiv traveled to Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, for ten days to identify and sample faunal remains from Eneolithic and Bronze Age sites for stable isotope analyses.

ASIL is excited to announce the arrival of two new postdoctoral scholars, Dr. Laura Strolin and Dr. Ma'ayan Lev. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND KiTE project, their research will examine the complexities of past human-environment interactions. Dr. Strolin will explore the spread of pastoralism in the Arabian...