Assistant Professor Krysta Ryzewski presents new research on occupation of Montserrat

The archaeological project Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat (SLAM), co-directed by Krysta Ryzewski, reports on the discovery of Archaic-period lithics in the journal Antiquity, 86(333). These finds are evidence of the earliest human occupation of Montserrat, and they are significant because they push back the previously estimated date of the island's settlement by at least 1,000 years.

Krysta Ryzewski and her SLAM project colleagues John F. Cherry and Thomas P. Leppard have recently published an article, "Multi-period Landscape Survey Results and Site Risk Assessment on Montserrat, West Indies", in the top-ranked (SJR) Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 7(2): 282-302.

Krysta Ryzewski and her colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Brown University's School of Engineering presented results from their ongoing 3-D neutron imaging experiments on archaeological bronzes and ceramics at the International Topical Meeting on Neutron Radiography in Kingston Ontario (June 2012), and at the Gordon Research Conference on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research in West Dover, Vermont (August 2012).