Congratulations to PhD candidate Franco Rossi
Franco Rossi has been awarded a 2012 Summer Residential Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, where he will be studying the notes made by Sylvanus Morley’s during his fieldwork in the early 20th century at the ancient Maya city of Xultun, the site where Franco is doing his dissertation research under the direction of Prof. William Saturno.
Andrea Berlin BU Today interview “Machine Dreams”
Andrea Berlin, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of archaeology, who specializes in Middle Eastern pottery made during the period from five centuries before Christ to 640 CE, is one of them. Berlin says archaeological digs and other historical …
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PhD candidate Brent Fortenberry is co-editor of and contributor to the eighth volume in the “Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology”
PhD candidate Brent Fortenberry is co-editor of and contributor to the eighth volume in the “Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology” series, Modern Materials: Proceedings of CHAT 2009 Oxford (edited by Brent Fortenberry and Laura McAtackney) , The volume can be ordered from Archaeopress.
Alumna Jane Lyden Rousseau (CAS 2004) has published.
Undergraduate alumna Jane Lyden Rousseau (BU CAS 2004), Scholar in Residence at Boston’s Old North Church and osteologist at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has published “The Land Under the Church: A Study of the Burial Crypt of Boston’s Old North Church” in the first issue of the Journal of the North End Historical Society (March, 2012).
William Saturno Discovers Maya Mural that Contradicts 2012 “Doomsday” Myth
Geographic News Published May 10, 2012
In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural.
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To hear Science Magazine Podcast Interview with Professor Saturno click here.
Congratulations to Pinar Ozguner recipient of BIAA-RCAC Junior Resident Fellowship
Pinar Ozguner has been offered a British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)- Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC) Junior Residential Fellowship at RCAC. Pinar will pursue the study of “Archaeological Entanglements: The People, and Politics of Archaeology in Turkey”.
Graduating senior Philip Cook receives award for writing excellence.
Cook’s paper was selected to receive the Alumni Association Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. A $500 prize will be presented to winners of the award at this year’s Class Day Ceremony on Saturday, May 19th at 3 p.m. in George Sherman Union’s Metcalf Hall. Friends and family members welcome.
Congratulations to Luke Pecoraro and Kathryn Ness they were selected to receive the student award funded by the Boston University Center for the Humanities.
The ceremony will be held at the Castle.
Undergraduate major, Tory Sampson’s (CAS’15) interview with BU Today
Tory’s story is an amazing story. Here is her BU Today interview.