Graduate student Student Kelsey Hoppes (Archaeology, PhD Candidate) wins the Plains Anthropology Society Student Paper Competition for her paper, “Lost in the details: Investigating a multi-cultural community in northeastern Nebraska through attribute-based pottery analysis.” 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. 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.