Kelsey Hoppes Wins the Plains Anthropology Society Paper Competition and Receives an NSF Subsidy
Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD听Candidate) wins the Plains Anthropology Society听Student Paper Competition for her paper,听鈥淟ost in the details: Investigating a multi-cultural community in northeastern Nebraska through attribute-based pottery analysis.鈥澨 She was also invited to publish in the Plains Anthropological Society journal.
Kelsey has also been granted a National Science Foundation Subsidy through the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor.听听This NSF subsidy allows Kelsey to double the pottery samples she will be sending to MURR for the identification of trace elements found in the ceramics. This will scaffold and strengthen her dissertation research using attribute-based pottery analysis and communities of practice to identify processes of coalescing of diverse groups and ethnogenesis of past Great Plains and Midwest communities in North America.
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