{"id":4241,"date":"2019-12-05T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2019-12-05T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:11:15","slug":"johnson-and-marston-publish-nixtamalization-research-in-jas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/2019\/12\/05\/johnson-and-marston-publish-nixtamalization-research-in-jas\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson and Marston publish nixtamalization research in JAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Archaeology Lab alumna <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/profile\/emily-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Johnson<\/a>, now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anth.ucsb.edu\/people\/emily-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PhD student<\/a> at UC Santa Barbara, is first author (with Marston) on an <a href=\"https:\/\/authors.elsevier.com\/c\/1aAIZ15SlTksS~\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article just published<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Archaeological Science<\/em>. This research is based on Emily&#8217;s undergraduate honors thesis at BU, which received the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/alumni-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences<\/a> in 2017. The article identifies, for the first time, a direct archaeological marker of nixtamalization (the process of soaking maize in an alkaline solution to create hominy or masa, which is used to make tamales and tortillas). This is a practice that predates European arrival to the Americas, and while it the practice of nixtamalization is believed to have a deep history, there has never been a way to identify this practice directly until now. These modified starch particles should be able to be found in a variety of archaeological contexts, including ceramic vessels used to prepare nixtamal and grinding stones on which it was ground into flour. Congratulations to Emily on her first publication!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Archaeology Lab alumna Emily Johnson, now a PhD student at UC Santa Barbara, is first author (with Marston) on an article just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. This research is based on Emily&#8217;s undergraduate honors thesis at BU, which received the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,9,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}