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Spring 2025

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Tracing ancient fertilizing of maize in South America through stable isotopes

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...

 Social Sciences   Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Curating South American plants

Christine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology

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

UC Berkeley's McCown archaeobotany laboratory completes a range of archaeological analyses and research. This project will focus organizing and editing plant type collections in order to clarify the digital file, prepare them for herbaria or dispose of them...

 Social Sciences   Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Ancient Maya Plant Use at Altar de Sacrificios

Christine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology

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

This project will involve laboratory analysis of preserved plant remains collected from household contexts at a Maya archaeological site called Altar de Sacrificios, which is located on the border of Guatemala and Mexico. The samples were collected from a range of time periods, ranging from the Preclassic to the Postclassic...

 Social Sciences   Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Crafting architecture in 3D GIS archaeological databases of sites from Bolivia

Christine Hastorf - Professor, Anthropology

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

Plotting archaeological plant and animal food data in 3D from a prehistoric archaeological project located in the Altiplano of Bolivia. The goal is to have a working GIS data base of excavated material so that the distribution and location of artifacts and ecofacts can be visualized. This project is part...

 Social Sciences   Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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