Gregory H. Bondar

Digging among the Georgian cowsHi there!

I am a graduate student currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology) at Penn State University. For my dissertation, I am using a technique called Neutron Activation Analysis at Penn State's Breazeale nuclear reactor to determine the chemical characteristics of a prehistoric lithic material called meta-rhyolite. Ultimately, I hope to be able to reconstruct how projectile points made of this stuff were traded across the prehistoric landscape of eastern North America.

I came to Penn State because it has excellent facilities for materials characterization. I'm interested in this stuff because, in my foolish undergraduate youth at SUNY/Buffalo , I earned a B.A. in Anthropology and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. The only thing in engineering that I found really interesting was the materials processing side of things. But, being loath to discard a degree, I decided to combine them in Graduate School.

In 1994, I earned my M.A. in Anthropology. Hopefully, I'll be out of here one of these years!

Here's my curriculum vitae in case you'd like to help!

I encourage you to investigate my web pages about the Archaeological Sites of the Southwest. I've spent 12 summers in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado because my dad worked as a ranger there. I guess that's a big reason why I went into archaeology.

Here is my colleague, wife, and fellow adventurer, Elisa Beshero-Bondar's, homepage and/or image.

Here's some web-sites that I think are cool!

Well, thanks for bearing with this rather crude page of mine. If you have any comments of suggestions or just want to say "Hi!" feel free to send me e-mail: ghb1 at psu.edu

as of 14:00 EST on August 17, 1998.