URAP

Christine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This URAP project will be working with Professor Hastorf on plant material from the Bolivian highlands that will be processed for stable isotope analysis in order to identify and model the impact of fertilizer on Zea mays, maize, that can be applied on archaeobotanical material...

Christine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project uses contemporary botanical and biogeographical information (recorded in Spanish) from herbarium specimens to characterize the ecological niches and associations of wetland plants. Herbaria, repositories of preserved botanical specimens, act as “plant libraries” that allow researchers to closely examine the characteristics of plant species and communities over space and...

Christine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

Plotting archaeological architectural remains in 3D from a prehistoric archaeological project located in the Altiplano of Bolivia. The goal is to create a 3D map of the excavated architecture and samples collected from a GIS data base of excavated material, so that the distribution and location of artifacts and ecofacts...