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Mark R Schurr<\/h4>\n

611 Flanner Hall
\nUniversity of Notre Dame
\nNotre Dame, IN 46556 USA<\/p>\n

mschurr@nd.edu
\n(574) 631-7638<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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My research interests take me into the field and the lab.<\/h3>\n

Field Work:<\/h2>\n

My field work has been conducted mainly in northern Indiana since 1991 when I taught my first field school at Notre Dame. Current research topics include:<\/p>\n

The Kankakee Protohistory Project<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0The protohistoric period is the time just before history. Sites produce evidence of contact with Europeans but date before the first historic records for the area (for the Kankakee, the earliest known historic records are from A.D. 1679). Dr. Madeleine McLeester (University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame) and I are investigating sites from this period to better understand how people adapted to rapid social and environmental changes.. Our current project includes excavatoins at the Middle Grant Creek site at the\u00a0Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie<\/a>\u00a0in northern Illinois. Volunteers are welcome!<\/p>\n

Summer Scholars Archaeology Field School<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a>For the fourth year, I directied a course that gives high school students the opportunity to participate in a dig and to learn about college life at Notre Dame. The project is called\u00a0Exploring the Foundations of Notre Dame<\/a>. We have been digging near\u00a0Old College<\/a>\u00a0on the Notre Dame Campus during the last week of June and the first week of July. \u00a0A chapter in the book\u00a0Beneath the Ivory Tower: The Archaeology of Academia<\/a><\/em>\u00a0provides an introduction to the site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Laboratory Research:<\/h2>\n

My lab work makes use of my background in chemistry (I have a B.S. in Chemistry \u00a0and worked in the chemical industry for several years before going to grad school). My enduring love of chemistry was originally sparked by a childhood chemistry set, and further nurtured by an excellent high school teacher. I am interested in applying analytical methods to archaeological problems. \u00a0 This is often called\u00a0archaeometry<\/em>. \u00a0 Methods that I am presently using include:<\/p>\n

Stable isotopes<\/strong> for understanding prehistoric nutrition, especially to examine changes in weaning behavior (or lack thereof) with the evolution of food production, and the relationship between agricultural intensification and social organization. I have recently become very interested in the isotopic ecology of people and the animals they preyed upon or coexisted with. Many of these projects are being done by students. \u00a0I am also exploring compound-specific isotope analyses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fluoride dating of bones<\/strong>, with many projects conducted by the\u00a0Fluoride Dating Service Center<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark R Schurr 611 Flanner Hall University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA mschurr@nd.edu (574) 631-7638   My research interests take me into the field and the lab. Field Work: My field work has been conducted mainly in northern Indiana since 1991 when I taught my first field school at Notre Dame. Current […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2471,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/mschurr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}