Northeastern Petrographic Services

Name: Northeastern Petrographic Services
Address: Buzzards Bay, MA, 02542, US
Telephone: +12073807898
Price range: $$$

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Northeastern Petrographic Services

NEPS is a small, woman-owned archaeological consulting business. l do independent contract work.

My areas of expertise include archaeological field work ,laboratory analysis, and specialized artifact analysis, including ceramic and lithic petrography.

04/30/2022

Stops highlighted from last week’s trip across New York State to collect . We’re working towards creating the first ever provenance database of pre- in NYS. We collected a total of 40 geologic samples.

04/21/2022

I can never pass up the opportunity to conduct a glacial distribution study! I always bring my hola hoop on trips, just in case I find a spread of cobbles worth counting. This area measured 12% exotic (metamorphic and igneous) rock mixed into the otherwise commonplace siltstone/mudstone bedrock. Keuka Lake was formed when glacial ice dug huge holes into the NYS bedrock. Large fragments of the ice broke off forming the lakes. As the ice melted, it dumped meters upon meters of unsorted silt-to-boulder-sized material behind.

04/18/2022

It’s Day 2 of our journey. Today we’re crossing out of the Catskills and into the Southern Tier towards Buffalo. Planning a late lunch stop at Letchworth.

04/17/2022

Today starts a seven day research trip across New York to collect samples of glacial sediment for the first ever Native American pottery petrographic provenance study! We were greeted at stop one in true New York fashion; with a hale storm! Blue skies now as we head to Stop #2.

Stops 1-3 are all located within the ancient lakebed of Glacial Lake Albany.

10/28/2021

A few images of a calcareous clay fabric from a Hellenistic-Roman period mortarium vessel, Iraq Al-Amir, Jordan. Images taken in PPL and XPL at 10x.

10/25/2021

NEPS is currently working with Boston University, Bridgewater State University, and the Levantine Ceramics Project to explore petrographic ceramic fabrics from Iraq Al-Amir, Jordan. Under the microscope this morning are Hellenistic-Greek period cooking vessels.

https://www.levantineceramics.org/vessels/24498-iraq-al-amir-ae62-i-3-27-1231

06/09/2021

Today's project is a look at the micromorphology of soil samples from Falmouth, Me. This work is part of ongoing research of a ceramic vessel recovered from the Walker Site in Falmouth. Soil micromorphology is useful for provenancing the raw materials used by potters. It can also be useful for discriminating between archaeological levels. Photo 1 is the original soil sample and Photo 2 is edited and illustrates the pedofeatures present in the soil. This provides a visual blueprint for analysis.

05/04/2021

Here's the link for the results of our latest project. Exciting stuff!

https://www.academia.edu/48289230/Ceramic_Assemblage_Report_Phase_II_FINAL_for_the_Callicoon_Creek_I_Site

03/08/2021

Here are images from start to finish of a single petrographic sample, Vessel 1, Rim, from the Callicoon Site in New York.

03/05/2021

I never tire of the beauty of Native American pottery. These are high-resolution scans of slides of Vessel #5 (top) and Vessel #4 (bottom) from the Callicoon Creek I site in . Birchwood Archaeological Services

03/02/2021

Another round of slides have arrived!
Time to get to work!

Birchwood Archaeological Services Dave Moyer

Address

Buzzards Bay, MA
02542

Telephone

+12073807898

Website

http://nepsarchaeology.org/

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