{"id":2792,"date":"2017-03-01T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2792"},"modified":"2022-03-08T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:11:33","slug":"emily-johnson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/profile\/emily-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n<p>Paleoethnobotany; Environmental archaeology; Experimental archaeology; Origins of agriculture and domestication; Near East; Mesoamerica<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests &amp; Fieldwork<\/h3>\n<p>For my senior thesis through Kilachand Honor\u2019s College I analyzed whether the process of nixtamalizing maize (turning corn into hominy) leaves identifying characteristics on its starch grains. Through this experimental process, I hope to make it possible to identify this practice in the archaeological record. See results in our <em>JAS<\/em> article, linked below.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, I worked with Prof. Marston on various projects in the Environmental Archaeology Lab. With funds from UROP, I assisted Prof. Marston in sorting and analyzing botanical samples taken from the Hellenistic period at the site of Ashkelon, located in southern Israel.<\/p>\n<h3>Projects<\/h3>\n<p>The San Bartolo-Xultun Regional Archaeological Project, Guatemala<\/p>\n<p>Kaymak\u00e7\u0131 Archaeological Project, Turkey<\/p>\n<p>Gordion Archaeological Project, Turkey<\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p><span><strong>Johnson, Emily S.<\/strong>, and John M.\u00a0<\/span>Marston<span>. The\u00a0experimental identification of nixtamalized maize through starch spherulites. <\/span><i>Journal of Archaeological Science<\/i> 113:105056<span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jas.2019.105056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7952,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2792\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}