The CPA group consists of petrographers who work in various places around the world, but who physically reside in the Americas. This page provides information about current group members, their areas of expertise, and how best to contact them.
Veronica Acevedo
University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Archaeology Regional focus: Northwestern Argentina Expertise: Ceramic technology, archeometric studies, archaeological anthropology Academia page |
Dr. Isabelle Druc
Dept of Anthropology, UW-Madison and The Field Museum in Chicago Regional focus: South America, Andes, Peru, SE China, Turkey Expertise: ceramic provenance; petrography; scanning electron microprobe Academia page |
Dr. Suzanne Eckert
University of Arizona and the Arizona State Museum Regional focus: Expertise: Personal website |
Dr. Krista Eschbach
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Regional focus: Southeastern United States and Gulf Lowlands of Mesoamerica Expertise: Ceramic technology and provenance using petrography, XRD, and chemical characterization with PIXE, NAA, and electron microprobe (SEM-EDS) Academia page |
Dr. William D. Gilstrap
Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE); Massachusetts Institute of Technology Regional focus: Central and Eastern Mediterranean; Near East; Central China Expertise: Ceramic analysis, raw material characterization by thin section petrography and chemical composition, material properties, microstructural analysis, firing technologies, provenance, reconstructing ancient pyrotechnologies Academia page |
Dr. David Killick
University of Arizona Regional focus: Southwestern USA, Bostwana, New Caledonia Expertise: reconstruction of extinct ceramic and metallurgical technologies with optical petrography, metallography, ore microscopy; electron optical techniques (SEM, microprobe); scanning micro-XRF Personal website ResearchGate page |
Dr. Mary F. Ownby
Desert Archaeology, Inc. and University of Arizona Regional focus: western United States, Eastern Mediterranean Expertise: scientific analyses of ceramics including petrography, chemistry, and SEM; interregional contacts; pottery technology (including surfaces), and ceramic ecology Desert Archaeology, Inc. Academia page |
Dr. Camila Riera-Soto
Department of Geosciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Regional focus: Andes Expertise: Petrography, geochemistry and provenance of raw materials (ceramic, lithic, building materials in archaeology; rocks, sediments). Optical Microscopy, Automated Mineralogy, DRX, µFRX, MC-ICP-MS. Academia page |
Dr. Yukiko Tonoike
Yale University Regional focus: Near East, especially Syria and Iran Expertise: Ceramic analysis, including microstructural analysis using petrography; obsidian sourcing using pXRF Academia page |
Dr. Andrea Torvinen
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Regional focus: Northwest Mexico, U.S. Southwest, Mesoamerica Expertise: ceramic provenance; petrography; scanning electron microscopy; felsic igneous petrology Personal website Academia page |