LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Agate and Carnelian: Analysis of Geological Sources from Central, South, and Southeast Asia and Beads from Iron Age sites in Cambodia

1 page.I would like to thank the Cambodian government for allowing me to work on the materials and undertake analysis on them, especially H.E. Chuch Phoeurn and Ham Kimson from the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. I am grateful for the help of Dr. Laure Dussubieux, manager of the LA-ICP-MS lab at the Field Museum, for her assistance with my research and organizing this poster session. Additionally I would also like to thank Dr. Jim Burton, who has helped with the statistical analysis, and my advisor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Mark Kenoyer. Drs. Randall Law and Michael Glascock assisted with the iNAA portion of this project. Dr. Law also collected and provided the Indian and Iranian agate sources. Kurt Gron provided assistance with creating the map of Cambodia. I would also like to thank Dr. Nigel Chang, Dr. Bill Boyd, and Sompong Paekosae for their help obtaining the Ban Khao Mogul materials. In Cambodia I would like to thank Heng Sophady,Vuthy Voeun, Seng Sonetra,Vin Laychour, and Dr. Gerd Albrecht from the Memot Centre for Archaeology. Dr.Andreas Reinecke kindly allowed me to analyze the materials from Prohear. Dr. Pheng Sytha helped provide lab space and access to the materials from Phum Snay at the Royal University of Fine Arts. Dr. Christophe Pottier from the École Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and the Apsara Authority allowed me to analyze the Prei Khmeng materials. Kaseka Phon kindly allowed me to examine materials from his project at Phnom Borei. Funding for this project has been provided by the Bead Society for LA, Portland Bead Society, the Bead Study Trust, the Graduate Women in Science Ruth Dickie Grant, and NSF Grant Number 0818401