Eaf Celebrates 20 Years At Annual Saa Meeting In New Orleans

A total of 11 posters and 14 oral presentations reported on research carried out with EAF instrumentation by former and present UIC-FM students and faculty and colleagues from all around the US and beyond. Maria Isabel Guevera Duque, a PhD student at UIC presented a poster (with MacArthur Curator Gary Feinman) dealing with the portable XRF and LA-ICP-MS study of Mesoamerican copper artifacts from the FM collection in an attempt to identify different regional productions and having a better understanding of copper circulation in ancient time in this part of the world. Other presentations focused on the extensive research Ryan Williams and his colleagues (Adjunct Curator Donna Nash and Research Associate Nicola Sharratt) have conducted in Peru, to the change in circulation patterns of Mesoamerican obsidian through time (Research Associate Mark Golitko and Curator Gary Feinman) or to the exchange of glass beads around the Indian Ocean and beyond (Laure Dussubieux and colleagues). Dr. Kuan-Wen Wang from the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica travelled from Taiwan to present her research on glass beads found in Taiwan (1st millennium CE) coming from the Middle-East
April 26. 2024