Geologists cite hair as 'human provenance tool'
Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 11:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Scott Samson, professor of Earth sciences and a faculty fellow of the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI), is leading a multiyear study of strontium (Sr), a metallic element found in igneous rock, as well as in human hair, teeth and bones. By taking hair samples at specific intervals around the globe, he and FNSSI graduate student Lindsay Blotzer G'15 hope to prove that strontium isotopes function as a kind of human provenance tool.