Guest Blogpost — LIBS at LEIZA
June and July this year got really busy with five guest researchers coming to Mainz and trying out their shells on our LIBS system. Rosa Arniz-Mateos and Mahsa Alidoostsalimi make a start and write about their results.
A fieldwork journey in Sicilian prehistory
The fieldwork aimed to visit the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites of Grotta dell’Uzzo (Trapani) and Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana), as well as collecting modern shell samples from areas around these sites. The modern shell analysis with the use of LIBS and stable isotope analysis will be a preparatory step for the analysis of the archaeological samples during the second phase of the SEAFRONT project.
SEAFRONT visits the NEaar-Labs in York
In October our research group visited the North East Amino Acid Racemization (NEaar) Lab at the Department of Chemistry of the University of York to date limpet shells using the AAR technique. During our two week visit, we had the opportunity to work together with the members of the lab of Professor Kirsty Penkman dedicated to providing amino acid racemization analysis.
