Young scholar tracked pre-Jurassic beasts to UChicago
Passion for fossils of mammalian ancestors leads to PhD’s prize-winning research.
Steve Koppes
Sarah Newman
Title: Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
Expertise: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, Human-animal Relationships, Human-environment Interactions, Landscape Archaeology, Mesoamerica, Petra, Waste, Zooarchaeology
Departmental website: https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/directory/Sarah-Newman
Mehrnoush Soroush
Title: Assistant Professor, Ancient Near Eastern Studies; Director, Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) Lab
Expertise: Ancient Near East, Application of AI in archaeology, Archaeological remote sensing, Archaeology, Spatial analysis, Water history
Departmental Website: https://mes.uchicago.edu/mehrnoush-soroush
Carbon-14 dating, explained
First developed in the late 1940s at UChicago, carbon dating can determine the age of organic materials as old as 60,000 years.
McGuire Gibson
Title: Professor Emeritus of Mesopotamian Architecture
Expertise: Archaeology, Mesopotamia
Departmental website: https://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/gibson