Publications

B. Sunday Eiselt, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, J. Andrew Darling, Michael D. Glascock, Elizabeth Miksa. Hematite Sources and Archaeological Ochres from Hohokam and O’odham Sites in Central Arizona:  An Experiment in Type Identification and Characterization. Journal of Archaeological Science, accepted for publication 2011

Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Claire E. Lenehan, Michael D. Glascock, John W. Bennett, Attila Stopic, Jamie S. Quinton, Allan Pring and Keryn Walshe.  Evaluation of Relative Comparator and k₀-NAA for Characterization of Aboriginal Australian Ochre. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, in press 2011

Mackey, E. A.; Christopher, S. J.; Lindstrom, R. M.; Long, S. E.; Marlow, A. F.; Murphy, K. E.; Paul, R. L.; Popelka-Filcoff, R. S.; Rabb, S. A.; Sieber, J. R.; Spatz, R. O.; Tomlin, B. E.; Wood, L. J.; Yen, J. H.; Yu, L. L.; Zeisler, R.; Wilson, S. A.; Adams, M. G.; Brown, Z. A.; Lamothe, P. L.; Taggart, J. E.; Jones, C.; Nebelsick, J. Certification of Three NIST Renewal Soil Standard Reference Materials for Element Content: SRM 2709a San Joaquin Soil, SRM 2710a Montana Soil I, and SRM 2711a Montana Soil II; NIST Special Publication 260-172; National Institute of Standards and Technology: Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2010

Nathan Craig, Robert J. Speakman, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, Mark Aldenderfer, Luis Flores Blanco, Margaret Brown Vega, Michael D. Glascock, and Charles Stanish. Identifying the Location of the Macusani Obsidian Source in Southern Peru. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37(3) 569-576 2010

Rachel S. Popelka-FilcoffRachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Richard M. Lindstrom, John D. Brockman. Characterizing the NBSR for Establishing k0-NAA at NIST.  In preparation.

Peter Robertshaw, Constanze Weise, Laure Dussubieux, James Lankton, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff and Michael D. Glascock.  Chemical Analysis of Beads from Nupe, Nigeria. Tribus, Staatliches Museum for Volkerkunde, Band 58-2009

Peter Robertshaw, Marilee Wood, Erik Melchiorre, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, and Michael D. Glascock. Southern African Glass Beads: Chemistry, Glass Sources And Patterns Of Trade. Journal of Archaeological Science, in press.

Peter Robertshaw, Sonja Magnavita, Marilee Wood, Erik Melchiorre, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff and Michael D. Glascock. Glass Beads From Kissi (Burkina Faso): Chemical Analysis and Archaeological Interpretation.  In Crossroads: Cultural and technological developments in 1st millennium BC / AD West, Africa. S. Magnavita, L. Koté, P. Breunig, O. A. Idé, eds. Journal of African Archaeology Monograph Series, Africa Magna Verlag, Frankfurt 2009

Watson, R.P. Popelka-Filcoff, R.S. Kramer-Marek, G. Mackey, E.A. Spatz, R.O. Capala, J. Quantification of Gold Nanoparticles in Mouse Tissues Using Neutron Activation Analysis. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 2009, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, Illinois

Mark Aldenderfer, Nathan M. Craig, R. Jeff Speakman, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff. Four-thousand-year-old gold artifacts from the Lake Titicaca basin, southern Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008, 105, (13), 5002-5005.

Peter Robertshaw, Marilee Wood, Nancy Benco, Ahmed Ettahari, Laure Dussubieux, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff and Michael D. Glascock.  Chemical Analysis of Glass Beads from Al-Basra (Morocco) and Medieval Lead-Silica Glass Submitted to Archaeometry

Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Elizabeth J. Miksa, J. David Robertson, Michael D. Glascock, Henry Wallace. Elemental Analysis and Characterization of Ochre Sources from Southern Arizona, Journal of Archaeological Science, 2008. 35 752-762.

Richard M. Lindstrom, Rolf Zeisler, Elizabeth A. Mackey, Paul J. Liposky, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, and Robert E. Williams, Neutron Irradiation in Activation Analysis: A New Rabbit for the NBSR, Proceedings of Modern Trends in Activation Analysis, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 2008, 278 (3) 665-669

Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Richard M. Lindstrom. Characterizing the NBSR for Establishing k0-NAA at NIST, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 2007, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, Illinois

Nathan Craig, R. Jeff Speakman, Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Michael D. Glascock, J. David Robertson, Steven M. Shackley, Mark S. Aldenderfer. Comparison of XRF and PXRF for analysis of archaeological obsidian from southern Perú, Journal of Archaeological Science, 2007 34, 2012-2024.

Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Elizabeth J. Miksa, J. David Robertson, Michael D. Glascock, Henry Wallace. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis Characterization of Ochre Sources from Southern Arizona, Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 2006 Vol. 95, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, Illinois pp. 487-488

Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, Nathan Craig, Michael D. Glascock, J. David Robertson, Mark Aldenderfer, Robert J Speakman. INAA of ochre artifacts from Jiskairumoko, Peru, In Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, Volume 968 edited by Michael D. Glascock, Robert J. Speakman and Rachel Popelka-Filcoff.  American Chemical Society Publishing, Oxford University Press, 2007.

Rachel S. Popelka-Filcoff, J. David Robertson, Michael D. Glascock and Christophe Descantes.  Trace Element Characterization of Ochre from Geological Sources. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 272 (1) pp 17-27 2007

Rachel Sarah Popelka-Filcoff. Applications of Elemental Analysis for Archaeometric Studies: Analytical and Statistical Methods for Understanding Geochemical Trends in Ceramics, Ochre and Obsidian,  Ph.D. Dissertation 2006

Peter Robertshaw, Bako Rasoarifetra, Marilee Wood, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff, Erik Melchiorre, and Michael Glascock. Chemical Analysis of Glass Beads from Madagascar. Journal of African Archaeology 4(1) 91-109 2006

Rachel S. Popelka, Michael D. Glascock, Peter Robertshaw, and Marilee Wood. Laser Ablation ICP-MS of African Glass Trade Beads, In Laser Ablation ICP-MS in Archaeological Research, edited by R. J. Speakman and H. Neff, pp. 84–93. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 2005

Peter Robertshaw, Michael D. Glascock, Marilee Wood, and Rachel S. Popelka, Chemical analysis of ancient African glass beads: a very preliminary report, Journal of African Archaeology 1 (1) 139-146 2003.

Jason Shergur, Rachel S. Popelka, J. David Robertson, and David Pollack. Distinct Chemical Patterns In Late Mississippian Caborn-Welborn Ceramics of the Lower Ohio River Valley, North American Archaeologist- 24(3) 221-243 2003

Brigitte Wopenka, Rachel Popelka, Jill D. Pasteris, Susan Rotroff, Understanding the Mineralogical Composition of Ancient Greek Pottery Through Raman Microprobe Spectroscopy, Applied Spectroscopy 56 (10) pp. 1320-1328 2002

Edited Volumes

Archaeological Chemistry: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, Vol. 968. edited by Michael D. Glascock, Robert J. Speakman and Rachel Popelka-Filcoff.  American Chemical Society Publishing, Oxford University Press, 2007.