Alum (BA 1982) Dr. John J. Shea’s new book “Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates”
Alum (BA 1982) John J. Shea, Professor Anthropology at SUNY, has a new book being published January 2017: Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. Click here for additional information. Some background from the author: “Several years ago I was among physical anthropologist colleagues at conference […]
Professor Andrea Berlins’ Levantine Ceramic Project LCP is the top feature in the Biblical Archaeology Society’s daily email blast!
Archaeological Views: Pottery in the Computer Age As published in the September/October 2016 Biblical Archaeology Review Andrea Berlin • 10/03/2016 BAR readers know there is no place on Earth more intensively investigated archaeologically than the Levant. As a corridor between east and west, north and south, as well as the center of gravity for […]
BU Student Veronica Joseph Hooded in Honolulu
Veronica Joseph was unable to attend the BU hooding ceremony. Her forensic anthropology lab at the US Dept. of Defense’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency held a surprise hooding for her there, with mother and son Xavier in attendance! Here’s a brief description from Dr. Denis To, Veronica’s lab manager: “…We actually had TWO hooding ceremonies, which you can […]
Guess which Professor was serving ice cream to the BU students?
Professor David Carballo served ice cream to the first year students. Pictures can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/FY101/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1066629490059608.
Veronica Joseph secures a position with the DPAA
Congratulations to Alum Veronica Joseph, PhD graduate 2016. She secured a permanent Forensic Anthropologist position at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) based in Honolulu.
Catherine West quoted in National Geographic
Professor Catherine West quoted in National Geographic The Plate. “The past has this incredible database that tells us what the landscape looked like when there were [Native Americans] harvesting resources differently than we do today,” says Catherine West, an archaeologist at Boston University who wasn’t involved with the research. “It might give us some ways […]
Kay Ueda accepted a position with Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Congratulations to Kaoru (Kay) Ueda (PhD 2015). She landed a terrific full-time position at Stanford University, to begin later this fall. Kay has been hired as Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Initiative at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Emeritus Professor Norman Hammond gave an invited presentation at the biennial Church Monuments Symposium
Emeritus Professor Norman Hammond gave an invited presentation at the biennial Church Monuments Symposium, held at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, on September 3rd, 2016. His topic was “Preserved in Paint: the Lost Habsburg Memorials at St John’s Cathedral, ‘S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands”. An earlier version of this study has recently been published in the Heraldry Society’s […]
Justin Holcomb book review published in Journal of Lithic Technology!
Justin’s book review published in the latest issue of Journal of Lithic Technology (Volume 41; Issue 3) ! He reviewed the book “Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean” by Alan Simmons. Click here to read review.
Dan Fallu discovered fragment of Ancient “Throne of Agamemnon”
“I treat this find no differently than any other: I simply want to extract as much information as possible and have worked to find the similarities and dissimilarities between this and the only unequivocally known Bronze Age Greek throne, at Knossos,” says Fallu, who has been working at Mycenae and near Corinth and Sparta as […]