Yes, You Ken! A Guide to Creating Your Own Water Isotope Baseline

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

How many water samples are Kenough? If you are Ken-fused about how to make your own, robust isotopic reference dataset for archaeological questions, this poster is for you. My job is baseline. At the beach, in the mountains––and everything in between. This poster reflects seven years of Ken-curious environmental isotopic sampling in the western Central Andes of Peru. I Ken-splain how to develop your questions and collect isotope samples [that are so cool] to support your research. You don’t need a faux mojo mink (though it’s encouraged) you just need some vials, electrical tape, and a phone. This guide will walk you through issues like fractionation processes (what?), possible variations among water sources (like canals, rivers, and wells), and temporal change. To ensure you’re great at doing [this] stuff I will also answer existential questions about sample acquisition, air bubbles, filtration, quality control, and horses. No more analytical or Blonde fragility––your research will be a ten. Just like Ken.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 41613.0