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Published: July 11, 2011

CT Scans Unravel Mysteries of Field Museum's Mummies

Jamie Kelly, Head of Anthropology Collections; Collections Manager, Gantz Family Collections Center

Chicago Sun-Times article by Kara Spak (with photos by John H. White) on the portable CT scanning project undertaken by the Anthropology Department at The Field Museum in July 2011. 

Chicago Sun-Times article by Kara Spak (with photos by John H. White) on the portable CT scanning project undertaken by the Anthropology Department at The Field Museum in July 2011.  


Jamie Kelly
Head of Anthropology Collections; Collections Manager

He has led several re-organizations and moves of collections to new storage areas. Between 2009 and 2010 he taught a US State Department funded Iraqi Heritage Training course at the Museum. He has worked with community partners and staff on the digitization of collections from the Philippines for an online curation portal. He has also worked in Brazil and the Midwestern United States, where his research interests are in the ancient history of the Upper Mississippi River Valley and Great Lakes regions around 1000 years ago.