In Remembrance of Chad DiGregorio
BU Today article We join with so many others who knew Chad in offering our deepest sympathy on his passing.
Prof. Rick Elia, NYT Article Regarding Antiquities Collections
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Alum Trina Arpin Publishes in Science
In Science Magazine Report Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China Xiaohong Wu, Chi Zhang, Paul Goldberg, David Cohen, Yan Pan, Trina Arpin, and Ofer Bar-Yosef Science 29 June 2012: 1696-1700. Abstract Full Text Full Text (PDF) Supplementary Materials
Cheryl Copson (CAS ’12) takes the Gold Medal
UPDATE 7/17/2012: Cheryl Copson and her team take the gold medal in rowing. POST OF 6/25/2012: Cheryl Copson (CAS’12) named to Canadas U23 rowing team. An All-New England First Team honoree and Boston University Scarlet Key recipient, Cheryl Copson has earned a spot on Canada’s Under 23 National Team and will compete at the 2012 […]
Congratulations to PhD candidate Franco Rossi
Franco Rossi was awarded a 2012 Summer Residential Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, to study Sylvanus Morley’s early 20th century field notes on the ancient Maya city of Xultun; the site where Franco is doing his dissertation research under the direction of Prof. William Saturno.
Andrea Berlin BU Today interview “Machine Dreams”
Andrea Berlin, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of archaeology, who specializes in Middle Eastern pottery made during the period from five centuries before Christ to 640 CE, is one of them. Berlin says archaeological digs and other historical … Click here for story.
PhD candidate Brent Fortenberry is co-editor of and contributor to the eighth volume in the “Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology”
PhD candidate Brent Fortenberry is co-editor of and contributor to the eighth volume in the “Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology” series, Modern Materials: Proceedings of CHAT 2009 Oxford (edited by Brent Fortenberry and Laura McAtackney) , The volume can be ordered from Archaeopress.
Congratulations to our alum Thomas F. Tartaron (PhD 1996) who is now a tenured Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alumna Jane Lyden Rousseau (CAS 2004) has published.
Undergraduate alumna Jane Lyden Rousseau (BU CAS 2004), Scholar in Residence at Boston’s Old North Church and osteologist at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, has published “The Land Under the Church: A Study of the Burial Crypt of Boston’s Old North Church” in the first issue of the Journal of the North […]
William Saturno Discovers Maya Mural that Contradicts 2012 “Doomsday” Myth
Geographic News Published May 10, 2012 In the last known largely unexcavated Maya megacity, archaeologists have uncovered the only known mural adorning an ancient Maya house, a new study says—and it’s not just any mural. Click here for National Geographic News story. To hear Science Magazine Podcast Interview with Professor Saturno click here.