View Professor Marston’s CV – September 2024<\/a><\/p>\nAbout<\/h3>\n
An environmental archaeologist, John M. Marston studies the long-term sustainability of agriculture and land use, with a focus on ancient societies of the Mediterranean and western and central Asia. His research focuses on how people make decisions about land use within changing economic, social, and environmental settings, and how those decisions affect the environment at local and regional scales. A specialist in paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, Marston\u2019s contributions to the field include novel ways of linking ecological theory with archaeological methods to reconstruct agricultural and land-use strategies from plant and animal remains. Recent interdisciplinary collaborations focus on comparative study of cultural adaptation to environmental and climate change in the past and present; developing new methods to study the spatial distribution of land use from archaeological animal and plant remains; and the ecology of plague. His current field projects include work at multiple Bronze and Iron Age urban centers in Turkey (with ongoing fieldwork at Kerkenes and Gordion) and a multi-period site in Israel (Tel Shimron), as well as work in central Asia (Khorezm Ancient Agriculture Project, Uzbekistan). Marston\u2019s recent research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US-Australia Fulbright Commission, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, American Research Institute in Turkey, American Philosophical Society, and Boston University.<\/span><\/p>\nSelected Publications<\/h3>\n\n
\n- Marston, John M.<\/b>, and Petra Vaiglova. 2024. Mapping land use with integrated environmental archaeological datasets. In special issue \u201cFinding Fields: The Archaeology of Agricultural Landscapes\u201d of\u00a0<\/span>Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>35:73-83.<\/li>\n
- Marston, John M.<\/b>, and Lorenzo Castellano. 2023. Crop introductions and agricultural change in Anatolia during the long first millennium CE.\u00a0<\/span>Vegetation History and Archaeobotany<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>online before print.<\/li>\n
- Marston, John M.<\/b>, and Kathleen J. Birney. 2022. Hellenistic agricultural economies at Ashkelon, southern Levant.\u00a0Vegetation History and Archaeobotany<\/i> 31:221-245.<\/li>\n
- Tang, Yiyi, John M. Marston<\/b>, and Xiangming Fang. 2022. Early millet cultivation, subsistence diversity, and wild plant use at Neolithic Anle, Lower Yangtze, China.\u00a0The Holocene<\/i> 32:1003-1014.<\/li>\n
- Marston, John M.\u00a0<\/b>2021.\u00a0Archaeological approaches to agricultural economies.\u00a0Journal of Archaeological Research<\/i>\u00a029:327-385.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
Courses<\/h3>\n\n- \n
CAS AR 280 Eating and Drinking in the Ancient World<\/div>\n
CAS AR 307 Archaeologucal Science<\/div>\n
CAS<\/span>\u00a0AR\/AN 510 Proposal Writing for the Social Sciences<\/div>\nCAS<\/span>\u00a0AR 516 Paleoethnobotany<\/div>\nCAS<\/span>\u00a0AR 594 Scientific Applications in Archaeology<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16021,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10252\/revisions\/16021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}