Dr. Marvin Rowe

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Office Number: 358
Office Phone: +974 423-0220
Fax Number: 4230060
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INTEREST AREAS
Marvin W. Rowe, Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University, currently teaches at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is a two-time winner of the prestigious Nininger Meteorite Award for research excellence.

• Dating ancient archaeological rock and cave paintings
• Developing a technique to determine non-destructive radiocarbon dates on perishable organic archaeological artifacts
• Developing at least two or three new instrumental experiments.
• Setting up a plasma-chemical apparatus at Qatar so he can continue his radiocarbon research projects and incorporate undergraduate students

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1966-68
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, 1966
• Bachelor of Science, New Mexico Institute of Technology, Socorro, 1959

EXPERIENCE

• Professor, Texas A&M University at Qatar, 2006-present
• Professor, Texas A&M University, 1969
• Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, 1968-1969
• Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Biomedical Research Group, 1959-1062

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
E. Robinson M. Garnica, R. A. Armitage and M. W. Rowe, Los Fechamientos del Arte Rupestre y La Arqueología en la Casa de las Golondrinas, San Miguel Dueñas, Sacatepéquez. In XX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueologicas en Guatemala, 2006, editors Juan Pedro Laporte, Bárbara Arroyo, Hector E. Mejía, Guatemala: Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, pp. 959-972 (2007).

M. W. Rowe, "Reflections on dating of rock art", In Exploring the Mind of Ancient Man, Editor Peddarapu Chenna Reddy, Research India Press, New Delhi, India, pp. 218-231 (2007). Invited contribution.

E. Brock*, C. Hixson, T. Guilderson, P. Murr, and M. W. Rowe, "Rock painting depicting the re-incursion of bison onto the south Texas plains: Painted Indian Cave, Pedernales River, Blanco County, Texas", Plains Anthropology 51, 199-205 (2006).

M. Terry**, K. L. Steelman**, T. Guilderson, P. Dering and M. . Rowe, "Lower Pecos and Coahuila peyote: new radiocarbon dates", Journal of Archaeological Science 33, 1017-1021 (2006).