{"id":663,"date":"2023-12-06T11:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=663"},"modified":"2023-12-06T11:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T19:29:02","slug":"david-rothfels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2023\/12\/06\/david-rothfels\/","title":{"rendered":"#56: Breaking Ancient DNA with David Rothfels &#8217;23, Chemistry\/Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"729\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2023\/12\/David-Rothfels-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2023\/12\/David-Rothfels-photo.jpg 579w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2023\/12\/David-Rothfels-photo-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>David studied archaeometry at Reed through an ad hoc major in the chemistry and classics departments (classics at Reed is now known as Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies). He was introduced to archaeometry, the application of scientific methods and technology to archaeological study, by a research mentor after his sophomore year, and then went about petitioning to form his ad hoc program at Reed (it&#8217;s not an easy process).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed community members can read David&#8217;s thesis, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/i\/38fe0ef0-afa6-4cb8-b28a-2b988b231627\">Hoping to Smash DNA with Rocks and Pickaxes<\/a>,\u201d online in the Electronic Theses Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1683289815&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/david-rothfels\" title=\"#56: Breaking Ancient DNA with David Rothfels &#x27;23, Chemistry\/Classics\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">#56: Breaking Ancient DNA with David Rothfels &#x27;23, Chemistry\/Classics<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David studied archaeometry at Reed through an ad hoc major in the chemistry and classics departments (classics at Reed is now known as Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies). He was introduced to archaeometry, the application of scientific methods and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2023\/12\/06\/david-rothfels\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,99,114,115],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episode","tag-archaeology","tag-chemistry","tag-classics","tag-glam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}