Justin Holcomb teaching a six-week Geoarchaeology Field School
Justin Holcomb will be teaching a six-week Geoarcheaological Field School with the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History (syllabus attached). For those students interested in getting unique hands on experience in the field with geoarchaeological training at a Paleoindian archaeological site in Oregon, please visit the following website and contact Justin Holcomb […]
Professor West on BU Research today!
By Ian Evans Catherine West hadn’t planned on studying ancient rodents. When West, a research assistant professor in Boston University’s archaeology department, arrived on the small island of Chirikof in the Gulf of Alaska, she planned to study how the island’s bird population had changed over time. More specifically, West wanted to see what native […]
Ivor Noël Hume, famed archaeologist, dies at 89
Famed archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume, who established historical archaeology within the discipline, passed away at his home Saturday surrounded by family. He was 89 years old. http://www.vagazette.com/news/vanews-ivor-noel-hume-famed-archaeologist-dies-at-89-20170206-story.html
Professor Catherine West articles about her squirrel research!
Eureka Alert Global Source for Science News Public Release: 15-Dec-2016 OU, BU and Smithsonian researchers investigate ancient species in Gulf of Alaska Courtney Hofman, professor in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, collaborated with Catherine West, professor in the Department of Archaeology, Boston University, to find that the current population of squirrels […]
Professor Catherine West Alaska radio interview
New squirrels on the block? Not so fast, researchers say By Shahla Farzan, KBBI-Homer, December 19, 2016 Featured News, Outdoors, Science & Tech, Southcentral, Wildlife Catherine West, a research assistant professor in the Archaeology Department at Boston University, said Arctic ground squirrels are voracious grazers and can strip an area of vegetation. “They’ll prey on bird eggs […]
Archaeology plans the menu for an Alumni Association Event – Eating Archaeology: Cooking up the Past
***SOLD OUT EVENT*** photo gallery of the evening(CLICK) The event was held on Tuesday, December 13, 6:30pm, Food & Wine Program, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Join us for an evening of food and wine with a menu researched by BU graduate students in the Department of Archaeology. Our chefs will re-create dishes from Prehispanic Aztecs, Bronze Age […]
Professor Catherine West article on Conservation Biology is receiving some press coverage
The article coverage on EurekAlert! December 15, 2016 “The archaeological record in the Gulf of Alaska provides us with a long-term look at human-environmental interactions, where Native Alaskans have harvested resources for thousands of years. This relationship can help us understand the complexity of contemporary human-environmental interactions and what this means for conservation,” said West. […]
We are pleased to announce that the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation will increase the endowment for the annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology with a gift of $50,000.
This donation is in acknowledgment of the success of the lecture series and the Department of Archaeology’s breadth of scholarship in teaching and research. The Sackler Foundation generously endowed an annual Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology in 2010 in honor of Emeritus Professor Norman Hammond. These lectures alternate between the archaeology of the New and Old […]
Professor David Carballo The Daily Beast interview
Tangled History Mexico Is Hiding The World’s Largest Pyramid In the city of Cholula in central Mexico there stands a hill with a giant church on top which hides a man made pyramid filled with secrets. Excerpt from interview with William O’Connor, 12/4/16 Click here to read entire interview. During the peak period of the […]
Emeritus Professor Paul Goldberg co-edited Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology
Congratulations to Paul Goldberg and his co-editors at the published Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Springer, 2017. As excerpted from the Springer website: Geoarchaeology is the archaeological subfield that focuses on archaeological information retrieval and problem solving utilizing the methods of geological investigation. Archaeological recovery and analysis are already geoarchaeological in the most fundamental sense because […]