Faculty and students of the IUP Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department traveled to Erie, PA, to present at the Northeast-North Central Regional Geological Society of America Meeting. Their talks highlighted their ongoing research and demonstrated the diversity and synergy within our department.
Lara Homsey-Messer cochaired a session on Recent Research in Late Quaternary Landscapes, Paleoenvironments, and Geoarchaeology of Eastern North America.
Faculty and students (indicated by *) were part of the following projects that were presented at the meeting:
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Preliminary Analysis of Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes in Allosaurus Fragilis Teeth and Insight into Ontogenetic Dietary Niche Partitioning, Josef Hohensee, Joseph Peterson (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh), Joseph Frederickson (Children’s Museum of Indianapolis), Jonathan Warnock (IUP), Michael H. Engel (University of Oklahoma)
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Reconstructing the Geoarchaeology and Landscape History of the Middle Monongahela Period Squirrel Hill Archaeological Site, Western Pennsylvania, Lara Homsey-Messer, William Chadwick and Christopher Schaney (IUP)
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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Squirrel Hill Site (36WM35), Tyler Fanell (IUP*)
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Peaty and Mucky Wetlands of Northwestern Pennsylvania: Vestiges of Late Wisconsin Deglaciation and Logistical Resources to Paleoindian Hunter-Gatherers, Todd Grote (Indiana University Southeast), Mitzy Schaney (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown), Lara Homsey-Messer (IUP)
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Deep Beneath the Surface: A Geophysical and Geomorphic Assessment of the Mary Rinn Archaeological Site, Nathan Coughlin (IUP*)