Professor John Marston receives Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching
Wednesday, May 9 at the College of Arts and Sciences faculty meeting Professor John Marston was awarded the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching. Congratulations Mac!
Professor Curtis Runnels Asphendou Cave, Crete, Times Interview
Cretan cave art is from the Ice Age Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent April 7 2018, 12:01am, The Times A carving of an extinct deer in the Asphendou Cave on Crete PHILIP SAPIRSTEIN The earliest known Greek art has been identified in a cave on the island of Crete. Depicting extinct animals, it has been found to date […]
The members of the Department of Archaeology mourn the death of Professor Rodolfo Fattovich
Professor Rodolfo Fattovich (Trieste 1945 – Rome 2018) worked closely with Professor Kathryn Bard for 25 years. He regularly visited the Department of Archaeology at Boston University for a month or more every year to work with colleagues. He held a Visiting Professorship in the Archaeology Department and was a frequent lecturer in BU’s African Studies Center. […]
Kathleen Forste in action – in the field
Kathleen is in Israel in the field. First she was at a beautiful early Islamic site near Modi’in, and now in the lovely little fruit orchard and garden behind the Albright, floating samples. Here are some fun pictures of her in action.
Prof. Beaudry and alumna Kaoru Ueda contribute to the publication of the 2011 conference on historical archaeology in Taiwan
Conversation between Archaeology and History: Seventeenth Century Taiwan and Its Surrounding Area Proceedings of the 2011 conference on historical archaeology in Taiwan, published in 2017 by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Among the contributors are Kaoru Ueda and Prof. Mary Beaudry. Save Save
Professor Marston’s “Office Artifacts” featured in BU Today
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Dan Fallu, alum, in the Marsh Chapel Choir Album
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Paleoethnobotany Lab (CAS AR516) featured in BU Today Close Up
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Professor Catherine West research featured, BU Research
Clamshells and Climate Change What seal bones and clamshells teach us about past climate. Written by Barbara Moran Catherine West was having no luck. Knee-deep in the cold waters of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, West scanned the rocky seabed for butter clams. The clams had buried themselves in the sand, as clams are wont to do, […]
Alumna, Anna Goldfield, first article as a columnist for Sapiens
Anna Goldfield, Boston University Department of Archaeologist alumna, is a columnist for Sapiens.org, a site that showcases anthropology for the public run by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Congratulations to Anna, her first article! Click here to read it.