Curtis Runnels elected to the Board of Overseers of the Gennadius Library and recipient of the Gennadius Prize
27 January 2010 NEWS Curtis Runnels (Professor of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Classical Studies) has received two honors. He has been elected to the Board of Overseers of the Gennadius Library in Athens, Greece. The Gennadius Library is part of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Founded in 1881, the School supports research and […]
Mary Beaudry gave the keynote address at the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference
The Society for Historical Archaeology’s 2020 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology was held in Boston January 8-11, 2020. According to their Conference Preliminary Program, “This year marks the anniversary of many revolutionary events in history, including the 400th anniversary of the founding of nearby Plimoth Plantation, the 250th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, and […]
Joshua Robinson awarded Leakey Foundation grant
Josh’s grant in the amount of $13,996.00 awarded in support of his research project, “Multiproxy paleoecology of ~ 2.35 Ma early Homo from Ethiopia.” Congratulations Josh!
David Carballo Teotihuacan Tlajinga article in Reuters
‘“We’re now finding that life on the periphery was pretty good,” said Boston University archeologist David Carballo, who discovered brightly-colored paintings over fine stucco on three buildings he began excavating there in July,” David Alire Garcia of Reuters. Read entire article here.
Sara Belkin (GRS’18) the journal manager for Geoarchaeology at Wiley Publishing!
Sara, who earned a PhD in Archaeology in 2018, will be working with the Editors-in-Chief to publish the journal Geoarchaeology. She is excited that her day-to-day work will include archaeology again. Sara said, “I really wouldn’t have been able to be so successful at Wiley without BU Archaeology and all the opportunities and things I […]
Anna Goldfield (GRS’17) compilation of articles about Neanderthals
Anna has been writing for Sapiens.org, an online anthropology journal, and has created a project. An interactive, clickable Neanderthal, where each body part is linked to an article she wrote focused on that part of the anatomy, Neanderthal behavior, and how we know what we know about our closest ancient relatives. The link is here: https://www.sapiens.org/column/field-trips/neanderthal-anatomy/
John Marston and Emily Johnson (CAS’17) publish article in Journal of Archaeological Sciences
Alumna Emily Johnson (CAS’17) publishes research based on her BU undergraduate honors thesis, which received the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences in 2017, under the supervision of her advisor and co-author of the article, Professor John (Mac) Marston. Click here for the article Abstract: […]
Joshua Robinson published in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Josh’s report titled “A Holocene paleoenvironmental record based on ungulate stable isotopes from Lukenya Hill, Kenya” Elsevier author-share link (good until January 16th) is: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1a852,rVDBReaX, Click here for paper PhD. Congratulations Josh!
Photos of Archaeology Seminar Series Talk 12/4: “Practical Flotation in the Field: How to Let the Water Do the Work”
Kathleen Forste (GRS’ 21) & Dimitri Papavasiliou (GRS’ 25), Boston University, talk. Click here for photos of talk.
Akin Ogundiran (GRS’00) named Chancellor’s Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“Professor Ogundiran has always been as exceptional as he was promising. He was a graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University where he bagged BA in Archaeology (First Class Honors) in 1988. This is where and when our interactions began, and that was where we sensed he was a student who would be greater than his teachers. […]