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Publications (2023): Armitage, R.A.; Fraser, D.M. (Eds.) Chemistry in the Service of Archaeology. ACS Symposium Series, in press, 2023.

• Armitage, R. A.; Fraser, D. Chemistry in the Service of Archaeology: Just What Does that Mean? 

• Fairchild, T.; Armitage, R. A. DART-MS for Rapid Identification of Logwood Hematoxylum campechianum Dye in Textile Fibers: Effects of Yarn Composition and Mordants. 

• Wilson, B.; Peterkin, I.; Repaska, M.; Jakes, K.; Southon, J.; Armitage, R. A. Plant Fiber Textile Yarns with Copper Carbonate Encrustations: Dating and Chemical Analysis.  

• Bower, A.; Bond, J.; Armitage, R. A. Investigating the effects of chemical pretreatments on organic matter in rock paintings: Implications for radiocarbon dating. 

• Walder, H.; Bonneau, A.; Carter, B.; Armitage, R. A.; Lovis, W. A. Multi-Analytical Characterization of Beads from an Andean Inka Chullpa Funerary Assemblage. 

Publications (2023): Pollard, A.M.; Armitage, R.A.; Makarewicz, C.M. (Eds.) Handbook of Archaeological Sciences. (2nd revised ed.). Wiley: Chichester, 2023. 

• Armitage, R. A.; Makarewicz, C.; Pollard, M. Shifting into a Higher Gear: Proteins, Small Molecules, and the Rise of Mass Spectrometry. pp. 477-481.

• Milek, K.; Heron, C.; Armitage, R. A.; Manoukian, N., Geochemical Prospection and the Identification of Site Activity Areas. pp. 1025-1044.

• Baldia, C. M.; Armitage, R. A., Archaeological Textiles as Secondary Plant and Animal Products. pp. 797-811.

Publication (2021): Characterizing the Dyes of Pre-Columbian Andean Textiles: Comparison of Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry and HPLC-DAD

Publication (2020): Chemical characterization and radiocarbon dating of the rock art of Las Charcas caves, Cuba

Blog post at Springer (2020): From our work on the Peruvian dyes collection published in 2019, we co-authored a blog post Camping, hiking, and a VW Beetle: the story of collecting dye samples in Peru with Kay Antuñez de Mayolo about her work in the 1970s to create this comprehensive dye reference collection.

Publication (2020): Charcoal-painted images from the French Neolithic Villevenard hypogea: an experimental protocol for radiocarbon dating of conserved and in situ carbon with consolidant contamination 

NSF Funding!  Read more about our NSF grant here.

Publication (2019): Analysis of the Saltzman Collection of Peruvian Dyes by Ambient Ionzation Mass Spectrometry and High Performance Liquid Chromatography 

Publication (2019): Archaeometric Approaches to Defining Sustainable Governance: Wari Brewing Traditions and the Building of Political Relationships in Ancient Peru 

EMU Today story, 4/18/19

EMU Today story, 3/20/19

Der Spiegel Online article on glues project (in German)

AAAS news article on our work, 2/15/19

AAAS press briefing, Mass Spectrometry Unmasks Clues from the Past, 2/15/19