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Using Modern Technology to Construct Ancient Ritual
April 02nd, 2013
by Matthew Piscitelli

Using the X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) at the Field Museum's Elemental Analysis Facility, I hope to reconstruct ancient rituals from 5,000-year-old ceremonial floors in Peru. 
Flakes, Cores, and Groundstones Oh My!
November 07th, 2012
by Matthew Piscitelli

Thanks to the generous support of the Field Museum Women's Board, I have been studying stone tools to learn more about the lifeways of the ancient inhabitants of Peru.
Ritual is Power (and so is the Web!)
June 20th, 2012
by Matthew Piscitelli

Creating websites is not as easy as it looks!
The 40th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
March 07th, 2012
by Matthew Piscitelli

The Field Museum and the UIC Department of Anthropology sponsored the 40th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory on February 25-26, 2012.
Temples, Nerves and Open Bar: Founders' Frontiers Symposium & Dinner
September 24th, 2011
by Matthew Piscitelli

My experience at the recent Founders' Council event.
Inventory, Databases, and Shell Analysis on the Beach
June 11th, 2011
by Matthew Piscitelli

Despite the picture of tranquility, work in the PANC field house is not all Pisco sours and beach chairs.
XRF in the Wild, Wild West
March 07th, 2011
by Matthew Piscitelli

Using the portable XRF to zap decorated earthenware from Tanjay, Philippines...
Lasers, Ceramics, and Numbers
March 07th, 2011
by Matthew Piscitelli

Learning to use LA-ICP-MS to source decorated earthenware from Tanjay, Phillipines...