Archaeology as a discipline is commonly thought to be destructive in nature, however, with advancements being made in the field, non-destructive/invasive techniques have been given more attention. Multiband imaging techniques are growing in popularity which allows researchers to analyze artifacts without damaging any materials. This research focuses on how using False Color Infrared (FCIR), UV Induced Visible Luminescence (UVL), Visual Induced Luminescence (VIL), and Infrared Reflectance (IRR) imaging helps to identify pigments, areas of decoration, or repairs that cannot be seen in visible light. By comparing how different materials appear under differing imaging conditions, I aim to create workflows for imaging that can be used to differentiate and classify pigment types as well as reveal information on provenance. This project also attempts to evaluate the limitations of the technique when applied on artifacts that are deteriorated or have undergone conservation treatment. Ultimately, this project will demonstrate how the application of multiband imaging, as a non-destructive archaeological technique, can reveal information that contributes to an overall understanding about ancient materials, technology, and provenance without compromising the physical properties of the artifact or limiting its ability to be studied in the future.

Over Summer 2025, I observed the professional labor, and held interviews with, several women currently employed by non-profit, non-government organizations focused on marine science, education, and outreach across Los Angeles County. Participants mentioned their deep care for the subject and investment in their roles, from individual passions regarding ocean life and public environmental access to notable academic and career accomplishments. They also cited a systemic undervaluation of their work, from unsatisfactory salaries to sociopolitical discrediting of their endeavors. This is due to longstanding cultural ideologies and institutions that lead to female-dominated care work demographics while undermining their essential environmental labor and concern. Beyond this evidence from ethnographic study, because care positions (like the ones held by project participants) are typically dominated by female staff, the systemic cultural disregard for “feminized” labor furthers the discrediting of these roles and the care work performed in them. This comes in the form of current and continued economically and ideologically underappreciated labor that improves an important, shared resource for humans and non-humans alike in a time of climate uncertainty. Keywords: care | women | value | Los Angeles | labor | oceans | NGOs

Archaeological tourism to Maya sites promote to tourists the experience that they are stepping into a place frozen in time, and typically incorporate local indigenous groups. This results in a conflation by the tourist on indigenous groups in the region as an extension of the archaeological site as living artifacts that can be interacted with. Emphasis on indigenous groups' participation on the tourist experience has facilitated a need to package Maya culture into a easily recognizable and digestible form for the tourist to consume as a commodity. In this process indigenous based tourism is promoted as an opportunity to partake in an authentically indigenous experience. What and who is defined as authentic is constantly being reconstructed and renegotiated, with the search for authenticity serving as a driving force in cultural identity formation.This ethnography investigates negotiated interactions between indigenous Maya communities embedded in the tourist economy of Palenque with tourists seeking an authentic Maya experience gathered over the span of three months utilizing participant observation, person-centered interviewing, and photoethnographic methods. In response to an imposed conception of authentic Maya culture, indigenous groups in Palenque have defined authenticity on their own terms while revitalizing and retaining their cultural identity.