The ASOM project has two new members working with PhD student Abby Buffington in the Archaeobotany Lab at OSU. Kyle Riordan is a master’s student and Drew Arbogast is a returning undergraduate researcher who will be working on plant phytolith samples from termite mounds near excavated sites in Dhofar. Plant phytoliths are microscopic plant fossils which we hope will help us get a better sense of vegetation change at the site following occupation.
Kyle hard at work microscoping.
Kyle (left) and Drew (right) work on identifying plant phytoliths.