Yale faculty, students, and other scholars are involved in active archaeological research programs that span five continents. Here are just a few examples. More information about these and other projects can be found on the Council of Archaeological Studies website.
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Andrew Womack conducting a magnetic survey at the Early Bronze Age site of Qijiaping, Gansu Province, China -
Undergraduate Ariana Fernandez holds soil samples from Peruvian archaeological sites for dating in the Archaeomagnetism Laboratory -
Graduate student Lingyi Zeng uses scanning electron microscopy to examine Iranian ceramics -
Yale's Archaeomagnetism Laboratory features a room shielded from Earth's magnetic field to take highly precise measurements of the ancient field recorded by archaeological specimens -
Andrew Womack and Bree Clarke conduct ground-penetrating radar (GPR) at Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala -
Steve Victor prepares to measure samples of Senegalese furnaces for archaeomagnetic dating -
Director Ellery Frahm analyzed basalt outcrops using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to map their geographic distributions through the Hrazdan Gorge, Armenia -
Archaeomagnetism sample collection in Limpopo, South Africa -
Andrew Womack conducting ceramic petrography of sherds from the Early Bronze Age site of Qijiaping, Gansu Province, China -
Archaeomagnetism sample collection at Caballo Muerto in Peru