Alum, Dan Fallu accepts a five-year postdoc!
Alum, Dan Fallu (GRS’17) accepted a five-year postdoc at the Tromsø University Museum in Norway to research soil DNA and the Geoarchaeology of agricultural terraces across Europe. Congratulations Dan!
Professor John Marston recipient of the AIA James R. Wiseman Book Award!
Archaeological Institute of America has selected Professor John Marston to be the twenty-ninth recipient of the James R. Wiseman Book Award for his 2017 book, Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. He will receive the award at the meeting in January 2019 (alongside Curtis Runnels receiving the Gold Medal award!). Congratulations Mac!
Alumna, Jessica MacLellan (CAS’09) recipient of PhD in Anthropology, University of Arizona
Jessica received her BA in Archaeology, May 2009 and has gone on with her interests in archaeology. Jessica is the recipient of a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She studies the role of household ritual in the development of ancient Maya civilization at Ceibal, Guatemala. Congratulations Jessica!
Photos from Archaeology Seminar Series Lecture, Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Dr. Ellery Frahm, Yale University, talk on “A Neanderthal, a human and a turtle walk across a landscape: Reconstructing Paleolithic mobility in Southwest Asia” Photos courtesy of Michael Hamilton
Sydney Hunger (CAS’19) recognized as an Outstanding Student Researcher
Archaeology Major, Sydney Hunter (CAS’19) recognized by BU UROP as an Outstanding Student Researcher. Sydney conducted her research in Uzbekistan, taking soil samples for phytolith analysis. 2018 Symposium Awards
CAS AR101, Introduction to Archaeology, students visit two late 17th/18th c. burial grounds in Boston
Professor Robert Murowchick took some students from CAS AR101 (ones interested in a meet up – going on their own time, on a Saturday) to visit two late 17th/18th c. burial grounds in Boston, the Granary Burial Ground and King’s Chapel Cemetery, to look first-hand at the the type of archaeological seriation that Edwin Dethlefson […]
Photos from Archaeology Seminar Series Lecture, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Dr. Natalie Monro, University of Connecticut, talk on “The Emergence of Animal Management in the Southern Levant”. Photos courtesy of Michael Hamilton.
Paul Goldberg, Professor Emeritus, co-authored a book
Paul Goldberg, Professor Emeritus, co-authored a book with, Panagiotis Karkanas titled “Reconstructing Archaeological Sites: Understanding the Geoarchaeological Matrix”. Congratulations Paul!
Archaeology Seminar Series Lecture “The Emergence of Animal Management in the Southern Levant”
Marston, Scott, Luke, and Shin are co-authors on the 2014-2017 Research report at Kaymakci
BU Archaeology Program Professor John Marston, graduate student, Catherine Scott (GRS’19), alumna Nami Shin (CAS’15), and Christina Luke, Adjunct Associate Professor are co-authors on Exploring Space, Economy, and Interregional Interaction at a Second-Millennium B.C.E. Citadel in Central Western Anatolia: 2014–2017 Research at Kaymakçı, published by AJA. Congratulations to all! Click here to read article.