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Preservation
April 10th, 2013
Properly piecing together a rare early human skull is a difficult task, but Robert Martin and JP Brown use modern technology to give us a new look at Magdalenian Woman!
November 25th, 2011
Check out what happens when you put together a team of Anthropologists from The Field Museum, Egyptian mummies and a portable CT scanner. You'll be impressed!
October 21st, 2011
Sticky is a 'seated man' from the Pacific island of Malekula. It's been at The Field Museum for almost 100 years and JP Brown is working to preserve it for at least 100 more. Check it out!
September 19th, 2011
Travel back to the 1920’s to discover the significance of The Field Museum’s joint archaeological expedition to the ancient city of Kish.
March 11th, 2011
Javanese masks are worn by actors in traditional dance dramas known as wayang topeng. Such performances are held at night and last for at least several hours.
March 11th, 2011
Scanning electron microscopy provides clear pictures of small structures. Energy dispersive X-ray spectorscopy allows the elemental composition of the structures to be quantified.
March 09th, 2011
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) allows conservators to determine which molecular structures are present in a material. From this information they can often determine which material was used to construct an object.
March 09th, 2011
Portable XRF analyzers make it possible to find the elemental composition of museum objects without taking samples.
March 07th, 2011
CT scanning a specimen cataloged as a "mummified bovid" produced surprising results.