![Nicholas in front of a pond](https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/nicholas_puente_in_front_of_a_pond_copy.jpeg?itok=k2u6eBOa)
Nicholas Puente (Archaelogy, PhD Candidate) awarded a Ralph Stone Graduate Fellowship from the National Speleological Society. The funds will support a feasability study to test whether speleothems, a term for cave formations, found in Postclassic period Maya architecture can be sourced to their cave of origin using chemical analyses.