Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) welcomed by Livepool!
Sydney is at Liverpool getting her MA on a Fulbright. Read University of Liverpool Bio here, https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/blog/2019posts/fulbright-scholar/
Photos and Video of 11/5 Archaeology Distinguished Lecture: “A Mercurial Connection: How cinnabar shaped relations between the ancient Maya and Highland Mexico”
Click here for Echo video recording of the talk. Photo of the event, click here. Boston University Archaeology Distinguished Lecture in honor of Norman Hammond, keynote speaker, Barbara Fash, Director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program (CMHI) at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. Talk Tuesday, November 5, 6pm, Stone Science, room […]
Photos of CAS AR 101 visiting our Zooarchaeology Laboratory.
Teaching Fellows, Mary Clarke and Guzin Eren take Professor Rebecca Bria’s CAS AR101 students to visit with Samantha Kelley, laboratory assistant in the Zooarchaeology Lab. They helped students with identifying bones and assembling them into complete skeletons. Click here to view the photos.
Photos from the 10/30 Indigenous Archaeology and Community Engaged Research in the Americas panel
Click here to view photos from the event. Indigenous Archaeology and Community Engaged Research in the Americas panel. Sponsored by the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences and the Associate Provost for Diversity & Inclusion in collaboration with the Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, and the American & New England Studies Program. […]
11/7 Archaeology Co-Sponsored Lecture with ACHF: Historical Imagery, GIS, and Lost Landscapes of Early China and Korea
Dr. Mark Byington, Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea (Cambridge, MA). “Viewing the Past through Different Lenses: Historical Imagery, GIS, and Lost Landscapes of Early China and Korea.”
Photos of 11/6 Archaeology Co-Sponsored Lecture with ACHF: Archaeology at Copan: A Comparative Perspective on Early States in Mesoamerica and China
Dr. LI Xinwei 李新伟, (Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing). “A View of Two Worlds: New Archaeological Discoveries at Copan and a Comparative Perspective on Early States in Mesoamerica and China.” A modest lunch will be served!
Professor Curtis Runnels blog posts
Curtis Runnels, 2019, How Modern Greek Came to America. Blog, Archivist’s Notebook of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens https://nataliavogeikoff.com/2019/10/01/how-modern-greek-came-to-america/ Curtis Runnels, 2016, Who went to Schliemann’s Wedding? Blog, Archivist’s Notebook of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens https://nataliavogeikoff.com/2016/11/01/who-went-to-schliemanns-wedding/ Curtis Runnels, 2015, “All Americans must be Trojans at heart”: a volunteer […]
David Carballo interviewed for Archaeology Magazine “The City of the Gods: Inside the neighborhoods of Teotihuacan, Mesoamerica’s first great metropolis”
Click here to read entire article. (PDF)
Photos from the Archaeology Seminar Series Talk 10/30: “Reconstructing a Hellenistic Temple at Tel Dor”
Becky Martin, Boston University & Ilan Sharon, Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University, talk Wednesday, October 30th. Click here to view the photos.
Justin Holcomb (GRS’21) co-authored an article in Science Advances
The Science Advances, the open-source journal of Science! The article is titled, “Earliest occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for hominin and Homo sapiens’ behavior and dispersals”. The site represents the core of his dissertation research, so it is an exciting development. Link: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax0997 Daily Mail coverage: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7580023/Early-humans-travelled-Greek-islands-tens-thousands-years-earlier-believed.html?fbclid=IwAR2tURo6H7l6ukAS3HTbWMx-SS_MAORGpX0NC0rzMhNYiuXr4NvTXumJNOo Eureka! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/mu-sfe_1101519.php Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191016153642.htm Abstract: We […]