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Catherine Scott, class of 2010
 Catherine Scott’s honors project reflects her fascination with Greece. She will be conducting soil chemistry analysis of a Mycenaean site to determine activity areas and site structure. Double-majoring in anthropology and classics, she loves travel and history.
The Millsaps College Honors Program allows students to work under the mentorship of a faculty advisor in order to incorporate past coursework into a rigorous independent study in a field of choice. It allows students to develop and defend original ideas, strongly preparing students for graduate school and careers.
She is currently amassing broad background knowledge of the process of soil analysis, surveys and excavations and a history of bronze age Greece. Last semester she took the Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece class with Dr. Mike Galaty as well. She feels that working with an expert in her field will prepare her for the project she is planning herself.
Scott conducted a large part of her research as part of a dig at the Grecian site of Iklaina. She participated in the dig with students from University of Missouri at St. Louis. After bringing back some of her own soil samples from the site, she will be able to perform a chemistry analysis to discover how the site was used and what activities occurred there.
Scott will be one of the first students to use the new W.M. Keck Lab, an exciting addition to Olin Hall which will allow anthropology and archaeology students to analyze historical samples. Through these samples, students will gain a better understanding of life in the past. The main piece of equipment she will use is the mass spectrometer, and while it is not currently installed, it will be a central tool in her work.
Although Scott is unsure of her future path, her project is the “first stab” into what she may want to do.
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