A fieldwork experience, no travel required During a two-week in-person bootcamp at the Penn Museum, 11 undergrads learned basic archaeological skills in subjects from ceramics and sample-taking to archaeobotany. During the archaeobotany lesson led by Chantel White (not pictured) of the Penn Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials part of a two-week archaeology bootcamp students including (from left to right) Ashley Ray, Emily Gladden, and Sarah LaPorte, learned a technique called dry sieving used to separate out organic materials like carbonized seeds, wood, and nutshell.
five Penn undergraduates surround a square patch of ground, 1 meter by 1 meter, cordoned off by neon pink rope. Fourth-year doctoral student Robert Bryant instructs the students on how to set up an excavation site.
The displays showcase many different objects from Penn s laboratories, including both a Neanderthal tooth from 40,000 BCE and a ceramic cooking pot from 1967.
Penn Museum exposes objects exquisite details with Invisible Beauty: The Art of Archaeological Science
The analysis of light-colored spots on a gold bead from the cloak of Queen Puabi of Ur helps researchers trace the geological origin of the gold.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.- Using innovative technology, the Penn Museum peers inside a fascinating, hidden world with a new 1,100 square-foot special exhibition, Invisible Beauty: The Art of Archaeological Science, opening Saturday, January 16, 2021.
Through more than 25 stunning images, Invisible Beauty unlocks the wonder of the human storyexposing objects concealed information with the use of high powered microscopes and multimodal imaging that employs infrared light.