[narrator] This is Melody Pope. By training, she's an anthropological archaeologist. She
studies people ,what they do ,and how they lived.
At the University of Iowa Office of the
State Archaeologist, there are thousands
of stone artifacts in the repository.
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She specializes in the study of stone
tool technology.
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Her studies focus on the unique wear
patterns of the stone tools themselves.
Melody uses an optical microscope with a
range of 50 to 500 magnification.
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Here, you can see the wear patterns from
scraping hide magnified 200 times.
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Her research on the Glenwood culture
focuses on tools that were used for
tasks like hunting, butchering, and
processing hides for many uses. Her
research as an archaeologist contributes
to our shared understanding of the past
and future.
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