John M. Marston and alumna, Kathleen M. Forste, co-author a new article
John M. Marston and alumna, Kathleen M. Forste (GRS ’21), are co-authors on a new article, “Cultivating the Hills and the Sands: A Comparative Archaeobotanical Investigation of Early Islamic Agriculture in Palestine”, in Environmental Archaeology. The article integrate archaeobotanical assemblages from a range of settlements across Early Islamic (c. 636–1099 CE) Palestine to argue that the production and consumption of plant resources were affected more by a settlement’s socioeconomic function than by its environmental setting. Read the article here.
